Photography, Coffee Developers, and Homemade Cameras
developer made with coffee, washing soda, vit c
sometimes i put a piece of glass or something out in the sun, on a sheet of photo paper i did this yesterday with some glass plates i exposed and
Continue reading…recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
i haven’t’ coated plates with hand made emulsion yet, that will happen soon enough … but i have been coating plates on and off since the mid 1980s … there
color images made from dry plate negatives
i am kind of stuck in hybrid mode these days part of me is stuck in about 1890 and the other part in 2013 .. recently i have been hand
made a handful of 7×11 portraits and i can feel for those photographers who had slow materials and kids that couldn’t sit still. it was still fun …
six, almost seven years ago i was given a recipe for caffenol c film developer by a friend whitey. I met this guy named whitey .. an artist and teacher
i was given an agfa shur shot camera years ago and didn’t use it much. it is a box camera from the 1930s, a basic camera. it isn’t the most
behind where i live is the cove the real name for it is occupasusatuxet cove ( paswonquitte ) which means -small cove on tidewater – it is an inlet on
many years ago i bought a medium format camera and used rolled paper inside instead of film. it wasn’t hard to roll about 2 feet of paper on an empty
Continue reading…ancient roll film camera and spools of … paper not film
i save all my developer that my film is processed in. over the years i have used this developer over again and replenished it with a little fresh after taking
there were some bananas on the counter snow outside a flying cage
a few nights ago it was cold, batch 5 was cooked up and roasted to a not light, and not dark color. it slept overnight in a glass jar, i
Continue reading…5th batch, made the coffee, drank the coffee then processed the film in it.
tonight i decided to roast the beans on the stove, window open in a wok. it was cold and snowy outside, so i opened the window and put the fan
4th batch of coffee roasted i am still using a hot plate and a pie tin, but i am thinking of buying a cast iron skillet or a wok to
