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Tag: paper negatives

negatives made on photographic paper in a camera instead of film

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.

The blue horizon

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 by wp-admin

It was early in the day, I was walking the path. The sun was in the sky, the water and wind were welcoming me. The path was soggy, it must

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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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peroxide reversals part 2

October 25, 2017 by wp-admin

well, as seen by my last entry i was able to get it to work a couple of weeks ago so i attempted yesterday to do it again.  so inbetween

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peroxide based photographic reversals

October 10, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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back to the 1920s

September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 by wp-admin

ive traced my roots in photography, to the 1920s i think. my values seem to revolve around people like the dadaists and rusian constructavists and surrealists more than the new traditionalists

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late summer photographs

August 22, 2017August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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a few prints

June 9, 2017August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

this first prints were made by a digital overhead transparancy at my local copy shop originally it was a digital files taken in a snow storm at a local park.

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chloro bromide emulsion #2

June 6, 2017June 7, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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cyclone negative cyanotype

November 7, 2016August 30, 2017 by wp-admin

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

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emulsive

September 29, 2016August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

i thought i posted a link to this but i guess it got away from me. i was interviewed by emulsive.org a little while ago about film and emulsion and

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hand tinted

September 29, 2016August 29, 2017 by wp-admin

this is a hand tinted image of a tree &c down the road from me.  it was made with either a 8×10 or 11×14 paper negative, i can’t remember which one,

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more recent cyanotypes

September 25, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

if you have been reading my last few posts you probably know  i have been making cyanotypes.  what happened was i mixed a bunch of cyanotype chemistry and rather than

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how you make waxed paper negatives

September 17, 2016March 8, 2017 by wp-admin

i’m no expert in this field, i’ve had fun making waxed negatives on and off for a few years.  it can be a messy job and it might not work out

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