So Many Stars

Magnesium

Shot on Ilford HP5+, scan from 4×5 negative

model: Jazmine Dominique

You Can Be the Stone

You can be the stone
That raises from the dead
And carries us all home

model: Jazmine Dominique

Beau Soleil

beautiful sun, which for me means its intensity is somewhat muted behind a thin veil of clouds. the magic combination that gives us life and a reason to celebrate all we enjoy on gods’ green earth.

scan from a polaroid type-55 negative.

model: Brooke Lynne

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Your Roots Are Showing

i have always loved this sort of figure study. just a model and a photographer and a gray paper sweep finding the beauty that is the female form. back to my roots, i guess.

i love women.

model: ginger

well, sometimes in your life amazing things happen and you just have to cherish the moment. a good friend and fellow photographer, Olaf stopped by a couple weeks ago after i bugged him about some 4×5 film holders he was going to give me. in addition to the film holders, he dropped off a shit-ton of film. and included in the lot were two boxes of Polaroid Type 55.

really? T-55? it’s kinda legendary film. and he just gave it to me. he just wants a print sometime in exchange.

i’ve already used about 8 frames of it and i’m feeling a weight that i’ve never felt in photography before. what good can come from this, what truly stunning images can i create? herein lies the challenge. and the first that i feel has some heft. enjoy.

Model: Mikaela
Scan of the Type 55 Negative
Natural light from my open garage door.

The Regret of Irrevocable Choices

shot with the Lensbaby Edge 80
model: anonymous

Climbing Walls

One of the beautiful things about working with a large format field camera are the movements you can do with tilting the lens board. It allows you to achieve a selective focus that you can’t get with a normal 35mm. Originally the ability to tilt was for perspective correction in architectural photography, but the ability to do some spatial compression and selective focus is much more alluring to me.

Scan of a 4×5 negative.

model: Erica Jay

The WE Project

Connexions Gallery in Easton, PA is doing a unique experiment in collaborative artwork. Each artist starts with a 10×10 inch wood panel and creates a bit of artwork on it. Next weekend, we turn in our creations and summarily receive someone else’s piece to which we embellish. Likewise someone will receive my piece and add to it. This happens through three iterations and at the end, all of the panels are hung in their gallery.

Originally, I thought I might be able to apply cyanotype directly to the board, possibly treated with gesso, but it looked like that wouldn’t work. So, I switched to bamboo paper. And I got such beautiful results (I really think I might be falling in love with Cyanotype). Here is a scan of a proof print, though the final print will be a bit different than this, graphically speaking.

For now, enjoy the sneak peak.