Experiments in film soup - part 4

This first set of striking images were taken in a somewhat mundane place, the Waterfront shopping center in Homestead, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. One of the reasons I love it here is that the mundane is often side-by-side with the transmundane; there are relics of the industrial age everywhere, hinting at history.

I used my Nikon N6006 camera, which is rapidly becoming one of my favorites, loaded with Kodak Max 400 35mm film. 

I souped the film for about 24 hours in diluted lime juice, then let it dry out for several weeks.

I had them processed by Film Lab 135 , then lightly edited the digital images.

As with my wet cyanotype work, I absolutely love the unpredictability of the process, and the way the resulting images challenge my preconceived notions about what the world looks like.

A pink bridge, with green clouds? I'm mesmerized.

These last three images were taken while hiking along the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail, an old familiar haunt of mine, along the Susquehanna River near Marietta, PA. 

There was a light glaze of ice along some of the shadier sections.

And I never tire of this view, looking towards the bridges in Columbia.

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