Darkroom Adventures: Blooming tree & other prints

I have not been in the darkroom to print since early this month.  I have been so busy with applying to jobs, sleeping, working, and being sick!  We also need another car, which doesn't directly affect my darkroom time, but does indirectly.  My goal for the end of this year is to hang in a show somewhere, but I start to doubt that I will ever get that far.

Here are prints I made this month of the cherry (?) tree amidst the abandoned mill.  Most of these prints came out gray and I could not figure out why.  I am not getting any good highlights, this may just be due to poor exposure.

 

Here are the "final" prints from my first roll of medium format.

This week I plan on printing shots from a new/old camera.  I used an old Kodak Retina IIF for the first time, I'll share more this week.