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I am a Freelance Photographer in Rhode Island. I make photographs using a variety of methods with and without a camera. I make photo emulsions from scratch, I coat my own photo paper and make cyanotypes too. I am a huge fan of Caffenol, and instead of instant coffee, I roast my own beans and sell them. I also sell silver recovery products.

If you remember something, you probably don’t really remember it …

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by wp-admin

A couple of Fridays ago I was listening to Science Friday on the radio and I heard a comment that a Neurologist made about memory. I’m paraphrasing but she said

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Just doing

January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 by wp-admin

I spend less and less time reading and going to photography forums. These places are filled with photographers or aspiring photographers, and a lot of cranky people. So much time

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workshops and lessons

December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 by wp-admin

I’ve been making photos of one sort or another since I was 4 years old and was given a hand-me-down camera. When I was in high school began taking formal

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self portraits

December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 by wp-admin

I don’t usually do self portraits but lately I have been making them. I’ve been reflecting a lot about the things I have been doing and what I want to

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Documentary photography

December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 by wp-admin

If you look at this blog you would probably never realize that for a longtime I have been doing documentary photography. The thing that got me interested in photography at

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the river

December 24, 2022December 24, 2022 by wp-admin

I looked out the window and the world passed fast like it always does. the brown fades to blue and eventually black under the shadow of night. the sun peeks

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The space station

December 21, 2022December 21, 2022 by wp-admin

Something like every 17 minutes the International Space Station flies around the earth. You can plug your location into this webpage https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/home.cfm and look to the horizon and see it

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Making the invisible visible

November 24, 2022November 24, 2022 by wp-admin

Since I can remember I have been interested in what’s not really there. Clouds moving in the sky, smears of blood, pollen, bug parts on a slide, colonies that grow

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Cyanotypes

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 by wp-admin

The past 14 years I have had a love affair with making cyanotypes. It all started when I was in the chatroom of a website I used to go to

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Risks

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022 by wp-admin

Do we take enough of them ? Too many? Not enough? I take risks in most of my photography, I get bored easily, I get tired of looking at the

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Boat race

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 by wp-admin

I make photographs and sometimes put them away and don’t look at them for months, sometimes the distance helps me not be attached to something I might have had a

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dream

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 by wp-admin

I dreamed last night that I looked at photographs of the new crimean wars. the images appeared and slowly faded to white, like a sunprint being fixed. I walked with

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caffenol cookbook

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 by wp-admin

as you may or may not know I am one of the people who contributed with the caffenol cookbook back in the day. I just noticed today when I was

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more cyanotypes!

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 by wp-admin

its been quite a while since I posted anything here but I have been making images, I have just been to busy to post anything here. I have been making

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yesterday

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 by wp-admin

yesterday I was drying a big sheet of paper with emulsion on it. I had coated some tracing paper to see if I could figure out the best way to

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