more glass and metal coated
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
Tag: caffenol
developer made with coffee and washing soda
dream
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
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
recent LUMEN prints from glass plates ( The Dream )
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
i haven’t’ coated plates with my new hand made emulsion yet, that will happen soon enough … but i have been coating plates on and off since the mid 1980s
dry plates … in color
color images made from dry plate negatives
hand colored work, from dry plates
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
7×11 portriats
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 …
the caffenol cookbook
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
Agfa Shur Shot
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
providence
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
occupasusatuxet cove ( paswonquitte )
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
chepiwanoxet
i have been spending more time at chepiwanoxet island these days. years ago it was an island, but when the gaulidette airplane factory was there, they trucked in dirt and
5th batch, made the coffee, drank the coffee then processed the film in it.
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.
