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little books of cyanotypes

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 by wp-admin

a little over a year ago I made a little book of cyanotypes. it has images on every page and the book is tiny. It’s a book whose images change

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It is not what I remembered

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 by wp-admin

You could see the sand bar encircling the island. It was a white curved line and if you weren’t paying attention you’d run aground.

I was there but it was different

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 by wp-admin

I visited the island and was there. I had memories on my mind of past experiences and used a box camera to record the time spent as I walked on

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Re-imagined Landscape

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 by wp-admin

For a few months I have been posting images to my instagram feed that I put (reimagined landscape) in part of the description. I began putting these words next to

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Things you might do

March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 by wp-admin

It’s easy to get bored isn’t it? I know I’ll pick up a camera or my phone or recording device I have at hand and I just stare at it,

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landscapes ?

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 by wp-admin

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

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it looks like i am off the good – stuff

December 2, 2014March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

after 15 years, or actually more like almost 18 or 20 years … i am not using ansco 130 developer to process my prints, paper negatives, film or work as an additive

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recent work

September 14, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i haven’t posted here in a few months for a variety of reasons.  but i am here again with a handful of photographs … as seen in a few other of

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working with lumenized prints again

June 14, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i am never quite sure what to call sun prints using regular old photo paper.  with plant materials and the same paper they are called lumen prints, with a pinhole

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recent events

April 16, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

found some coated plates in a box! 5x7s ready to expose, can’t wait  🙂 my only problem is, should i make cameraless images, or glass negatives, or ambrotypes ? i

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limited success with home brew tintype developer

January 31, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

for a few weeks now i have been experimenting with various reversal developers to make silver gelatin tintypes.  i abandoned my old stock of liquid emulsion for an unopened bottle

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recent images

January 30, 2014June 2, 2017 by wp-admin

     

the plates were still wet

January 26, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

the plates were sill wet, so i made some sumatranol 130 into a reversal developer / monobath and made some photograms.  they are still hanging too ( all rc paper

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More tintypes

January 25, 2014December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

i loaded up a graflex series d plate holder yesterday and filled it with 6 coated plates.  i exposed them heavily hoping my dead emulsion would like extra light and

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new dry plate tintypes

January 18, 2014August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

for a little under a year i have been playing with dry plate tintypes+ambrotypes. my glass plate history began back when i was in a directed study photography class at

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