New Salted-paper Prints
I spent yesterday afternoon making six salted-paper prints. All of these prints are on 8×10 inch sheets of Hahnemühle Platinum Rag paper. The image size is 6×7.5 inches or 6.5
Category: Alt Process
Worldwide Pinhole Photograph Day – 2025
The last Sunday in April every year is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD). The idea is that folks make a photograph using a lensless camera and upload a single photo
Two Salted-Paper Prints
I have not made a salted-paper print in quite some time (several months). I guess that I have been too busy toning cyanotypes!! However, I made two exposures over the
Cliche Verre / Cyanotypes
Cliche verre (literately “glass print” in French) is a type of photogram (camera less image). Traditionally, a glass plate was coated with an opaque material and then an image was
Cornish Fair / Toned Cyanotypes
I made some cyanotypes from the images I captured at the Cornish Fair a few weeks back.
Cyanotype Photograms
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
Finished Work / Toned Cyanotypes
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
Toning Cyanotypes
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’.
Platinum/Palladium Prints
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
Mellow(?) Yellow
Early spring, a season of gray and brown, worse for the psyche than November. What a feeling of relief when yellow explosions of forsythia and daffodils finally appear beginning in