Experiments in film soup - part 2

 

It's time for more film soup goodness! This batch of photos is from a roll of Fuji film 200 in my Minolta Maxxum 50 camera, souped with lime juice, dried, and specially processed. (See my previous post for more details on how the process works.)

Again with this roll, the effects are subtle-to-mid, enhancing but not substantially changing the imagery. It's a happy space for me.

The Greer tunnel on the Montour trail is turning into a perennial favorite subject. The addition of the metal panels done during an extensive renovation just takes everything to the next level, in person and in photos.

St. Francis looks appropriately ethereal.

The effect on bare sycamores by a creek is a great enhancement of something that I wouldn't have thought needed enhancement.

A historic house, and a glimpse of a bridge through late winter trees-- it's just thrilling to me how this process adds another layer of interest and meaning.

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Experiments in wet cyanotype - part 91

Time for another round of wet cyanotype goodness! I started with a large panel of cotton sateen and some peony leaves.

Followed by a medium sized panel of cotton, with small woven details, and some fig leaves.

Next up, some mineral paper prints using Virginia creeper leaves.

And then some more peony leaves, also on mineral paper.

For all of these I used a splash of Solarfast mixed with the cyanotype chemicals.

Here they are after exposure but before rinsing.

I love the effect provided by the woven circle details in this cloth.

They are so pretty and interesting at this stage. Most of those brown and rusty tones will be lost in the rinse.

Here are the finished prints. I got just the right shade of peony pink on this one.

The fig leaves are slated for a current work in progress. I'm happy with the turmoil happening at the top.

These stayed lovely and delicate.

And these peony leaves are bold yet tranquil. I never tire of these experiments because they turn out different each and every time.

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Summer solstice 2024 pinhole images

I am celebrating the summer solstice once again in my favorite fashion, by unveiling a new set of pinhole camera images. 

I make the pinhole cameras, such as they are, using a beer can and some black and white photo paper, with a single pinhole to admit light.

I mounted these out in various locales around my place on the winter solstice in 2023, and have been letting them slowly expose until now.

Each stripe in the sky represents the path of the sun on a particular day.

Today I took them down and scanned the photos. I then inverted them to a negative image and did just a light bit of digital cleaning up and enhancing.

These may or may not be masterpieces, but they make me very happy and remind me that the visual world contains multitudes.

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Experiments in wet cyanotype - part 90

More wet cyanotype goodness, this time with an assortment of oak leaves on mineral paper.

I also made some prints using pokeweed leaves, Phytolacca americana, on mineral paper.

I printed a large panel on cotton sateen using oak leaves, black locust leaves, and some of the ubiquitous Japanese knotweed. All of these were quick opportunistic arrangements, using leaves readily at hand. I used cyanotype solution with just a glug of Solarfast solar dye.  

Here are the prints after exposure but before rinsing. 

I can already tell at this stage that they are going to be complex and wonderful.

Here are the finished prints.

The backgrounds on these are giving me astrophotography vibes.

That bit of yellow on the bottom right of this cotton panel is making me very happy.

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