Making the invisible visible
Since I can remember I have been interested in what’s not really there. Clouds moving in the sky, smears of blood, pollen, bug parts on a slide, colonies that grow
Tag: traditional photography
Cyanotypes
The past 14 years I have had a love affair with making cyanotypes. It all started when I was in the chatroom of a website I used to go to
Risks
Do we take enough of them ? Too many? Not enough? I take risks in most of my photography, I get bored easily, I get tired of looking at the
yesterday
yesterday I was drying a big sheet of paper with emulsion on it. I had coated some tracing paper to see if I could figure out the best way to
Demolished buildings
I went back to the site down the street and set up in around the same place and rephotographed the demolition site. Trucks had been hauling off the former buildings
the coast
The other day I made long exposures for retina prints. I parked my car at the local seacoast park and propped my camera up on dashboard. I had to stick
little books of cyanotypes
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
The overpasses
We pass this stretch of road every day. The road brings people on and off and down, and up and over. Concrete and metal and sometimes there is dead grass
It is not what I remembered
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 trees
I was there today, but I didn’t leave where I was. Photography has a way of doing that, transporting us to a different time and place like listing to a
The blue horizon
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
I was there but it was different
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
Re-imagined Landscape
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
Things you might do
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,
Trickle Tanks and “After” Kits
As I mentioned in an earlier post USI, the company I was distributing for isn’t around anymore, but another company grew up in it’s place. I have the price list