Cornish Fair / Toned Cyanotypes
I made some cyanotypes from the images I captured at the Cornish Fair a few weeks back.
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I made some cyanotypes from the images I captured at the Cornish Fair a few weeks back.
Cyanotype, invented in 1842 by John Herschel, is an iron-based photosenstive system resulting in images formed from Prussian Blue. Photograms are made by placing opaque or translucent items directly on
Yesterday, my friend Victor and I visited the Cornish Fair in, of all places, Cornish NH! My interest was mainly in the ox pulling events. For some inexplicable reason I
I have spent the past week making two batches of toned cyanotypes. The first three prints (square images showing the entire sheet of paper) are from exposures made last weekend
I haven’t made a cyanotype in more than four years. However, about six weeks ago an on-line friend posted a really nice cyanotype that he had toned with ‘sumac gall’.
This afternoon with the temperature in the 70s F, sunny skies and no wind (i.e. ideal odeing weather) I spent an hour and a half (5:00 to 6:30 PM) photographing
I spent yesterday afternoon in my basement dim room for the first time in several months. I made six small (4×5 inch) platinum/palladium prints of exposures I made back in
Late this afternoon, I spent about forty minutes watching (and photographing) a young male moose in shallows of Gregg Lake north of the road*. Much of the time the light
I observed the first of the seasons dragonflies (Hudsonian White-faces) in our yard a couple of weeks ago. However, today was the first day I got out to photograph odes.
There are lots of interesting subjects on Star Island to photograph besides the birds. Thus, I sometimes point my camera at these things. Rarely, however, do I switch away from