Photography as a gateway drug
It has been a long time that I have been noticing stuff. I’ve daydreamed, watching light and shadows dance on the ceiling, and sometimes recorded these images on film or
Tag: black and white
black and white photography
The camera as a truth teller
For a few decades now I have made photographs that are a reflection of what is in front of the camera. That’s how a camera works, it isn’t really something
landscapes ?
The photographs taken as “landscape photographs” really are not what was in front of the camera at all. Well, they are what was in front of the camera but that’s
Peroxide Reversals
A long while ago when I learned you could do hopefully simple reversals with photo paper ( that is you make the exposure and instead of using developer stop and
some of the buildings and structures in boston
i lived in or near boston for around 15 years. and while it has changed a lot since i left ( 1998 ) it is still very much the same.
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ARAX60 !
it seems that i have been asleep at the wheel for the past 8 months but i assure you i haven’t ! its been a really strange new year (
peroxide based photographic reversals
im back at attempting to making direct postive reversals again. there have been a number of different ways to do these over the years, some use toxic chemistry ( sulfuric
late summer photographs
just a taste of what i have been doing lately. it includes using a cyclone #3 and empire state … as usual, i have been off the beaten path, i
chloro bromide emulsion #2
its been a while since i made the emulsion i wrote about here but that isn’t to say it hasnt been on my mind since a year ago january. i’ve been
latest tinted images
i have been exposing film without processing it for about a year now. i had about 20 or 25 rolls of assorted black/white and color 35mm and a couple of
ilex seminat
admittedly i might have a few too many lenses. i don’t have curio cabinets full of them, or 4 shelves piled high but i am always a sucker for a
cyclone negative cyanotype
a couple of days ago i was making some more cyanotypes i loaded up some contact frames with waxed negatives to see if i could get a better print than i did
more recent cyanotypes
i haven’t been using a camera much these days. i have film to be processed (probably 10 rolls ?) some taken a while ago, some taken since the spring. i
recent cyanotypes
just made a handful of cyanotypes lately using paper coated and left in a light safe in a humid basement for the last 7 or 8 months. the paper was not
photo illustration sort of, PS colored photo reconstruction
a while back i made some paper negative from hand made emulsion the negatives were more like a collage of things, images, textures, brush strokes. i decided to scan big and crop
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