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"Crazy Tuesday" and "childhood memories" In the family for many decades, Mum used to say I was encouraged to finish my dinner, so as I would reveal the illustration
Toyo 45AX
f5.6 - 10 secs.
This 4x5 photo is my last Wet Plate portrait from a 7 week class. Long story short, I stumbled onto the wet plate process a few months ago and have been blown away by the haunting quality of those photos. The wet plate photo process dates back to 1850s. The plates are coated with collodion and silver nitrate to make it light sensitive. Once this is done, you have roughly 10 minutes to take the photo and develop the plate. The whole process must be completed while the plate is wet, hence "wet plate." This technique when applied to glass is called Ambrotype and Tintype when it is on aluminum. I really like this photo genre. The hard part is trying to figure out how to do it consistently living in a big city.
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My first plate from Kamchatka of my trip! Kamchatka is a pensinsula in the Far East, close to Japan!
Distance from home: 6640 km.
From before Christmas.
I'm in summer holiday mode here at the moment, so not much time for processing and flickr etc, in fact am going to be away for the next few days....
Softly flypaper processed with Autumn painterly flypapers.
My first plate from Treiste, in the East of the country, surrounded by Slovenia! A 1994 plate!
Distance from home: 615 km.
Some days my daughter lets me photograph while she nicely sleeps in her bed. Today was like this. I had a few hours to spend with my camera and my new lens :) (85 mm f1.4 G)
Carrocería/Bodywork: MAN Lion's Intercity LE
Chassis: MAN 1556LOH Efficient Hybrid
Series: 387 - 394
Longitud/Length: 13m
Matricula/Plate: 1411-MSF (2024)
My first mince pie of the season – I was on the winning team at a quiz last week and I got half a dozen mince pies as a prize.
My daughter gave me the plate at Christmas several years ago.
Spotted in the snowy Geneva, not far from the main station, was this export plate from Hungary!
Distance from home: 1265 km.
Shot with a Voigtländer Perkeo II
80mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar lens
Kodak Gold 200 film
Shot at EI 200
Developed by The Darkroom
Scanned on a Coolscan 9000ED
Behind the photo (inside the case) is a handwritten note that reads "Taken on 8th Avenue N.Y. Aug. 14, 1857."
An ambrotype is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype, which it replaced, and like the prints produced by a Polaroid camera, each is a unique original that could only be duplicated by using a camera to copy it. Introduced in 1853, by the late 1850s, the ambrotype had overtaking the daguerreotype in popularity. By the mid-1860s, the ambrotype itself was being replaced by the tintype, a similar image on a sturdy black-lacquered thin iron sheet. So ambrotype images had a rather short life of 10 to 15 years..
The girls are housed in this case:
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NS 8100, painted in the livery of the now assimilated Nickel Plate Road, leads westbound stack train 21Q through Trafford, Pennsylvania.
Someone thought they may be worth somethign, but I'm not so sure. We eat of them and bosh them through the dishwasher and all sorts.