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developer made with coffee and washing soda

using a box camera

October 23, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

box cameras usually have one shutter speed and a OPEN setting for time exposures.  sometimes it can be difficult to make photograph when there is a vast difference between light

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using a cyclone

October 6, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

from time to time i get asked what kind of camera i have or use or like or like to use or … my current favorite is a cyclone #3.

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safari

June 11, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

a month ago we went on a safari downtown, in the heat, and the midday sun. we loaded the demlar box ( 4×5 plate camera ) some hand coated 4×5

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more glass and metal coated

April 20, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

last night with the radio keeping me company i heated emulsion and scrubbed glass and coated 6- 5×7, 4- 4×5 glass plates  1 – 4×5 metal sheet, and 2 trimmed

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dream

April 19, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

they say you dream in black and white and when you awake your brain puts color to it all.   i awoke and saw it all in color …

hand color, sun print .. half the dream

April 18, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

sometimes i run on inertia, i just am on autopilot and don’t really stop and think if i am doing something right or wrong &c. the colors were added by

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recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )

April 17, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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coating plates … how to

April 15, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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dry plates … in color

April 13, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

color images made from dry plate negatives    

hand colored work, from dry plates

April 13, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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

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7×11 portriats

March 19, 2013December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

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 …

1910-2012

March 16, 2013August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

the caffenol cookbook

November 29, 2012December 22, 2014 by wp-admin

six, almost seven years ago i was given a recipe for caffenol c film developer by a friend whitey.  i met whitey over on apug.org, one of the 3 or

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Agfa Shur Shot

November 29, 2012August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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providence

February 12, 2012August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i am involved with a project with a few other photographers in rhode island …  the providence grid project. it was thought of by a photographer named paul shelasky. together

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