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Thicket Morning (Digital)
Walking the dog on a misty morning
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Ephemeral Prints: Part 1
A movement against the archival...
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Film from Digital Prints: Comparing Ilford MGFB Classic and Fomatone MG Classic Warmtone
I have been experimenting with Fomatone MG Classic Warmtone paper recently. I have found it has a pleasing look when developed in ECO 4812 which is not a warmtone developer. It maintains a warmer tone that can verge on green in some light. I do not like green toned prints
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Rescuing Old Paper: Negra Portrene
When I first began to learn printing in the darkroom, I went through a phase of picking up different expired papers. Partly because they were cheap and also to experience what the properties and history of these old papers were like. Eventually I came to the conclusion that most papers
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Lith Printing Nerga Portrene
I have returned to this old paper recently and have decided to try lith printing it again. It is a single grade warmtone paper from the 1970's. When I first bought it I found it lithed well and this has been born out again. I used Fotospeed Lith
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Film from Digital Prints: Toning
A few days ago, I completed a set of prints on Fomatone MG Warmtone paper. Mostly to see what this paper was like and to print another film negative made from a digital image. The negative was one I made with my Fuji GFX 50s ii digital camera then had
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Film from Digital Prints: Fomatone Warmtone Paper
Another print in this series of digital images made into negatives for conventional silver gelatin prints. You can find earlier incarnations here... This time I decided to experiment with a warmtone paper. The genesis of this was that I noted, and Andrew Sanderson master printer prints exclusively on Ilford Warmtone
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More 'Ma': Film from Digital Print: Part II
Another print from this series that emphasizes negative space using film negatives created from a digital image. I made a series of images on the same foggy morning on Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho. There was some ice on the lake and a shifting fog obscuring and revealing the far
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Existence
I was reading Lafcadio Hearn and was recollecting back to one late night’s walk this past winter. The air was cold and dry and the sky cloudless and moonless with bright stars piercing the sky like bright shiny nail heads. Above me were the familiar shapes of Orion, The
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Sand Creek Lith Prints: Lith Prints from Digital Images
This is a series of prints made from my 'Lower Sand Creek in Winter' project that I worked on last winter. The images were taken on my Fuji GFX 50s ii digital camera using a Fuji Acros film simulation. I also restricted the cropping to Xpan (65:24)
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More 'Ma': Film from Digital Print
On my pursuit of negative space images, I find these are hard to plan for and one must try and be alive to the idea when they happen. This one I captured on my regular winter walks through town. I was shooting in a black and white mindset with my