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This shot is an old one that I have posted on Flickr, but since doing so my processing skills have come miles. The shot is now much closer to what I saw than was in the original version.
Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) is a Swedish mining company. The company mines iron ore at Kiruna and at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The company was established in 1890, and has been 100% state-owned since the 1950s. In 1918 the company purchased the Francis Flower business in the UK which included the GBSS processing plant at Scunthorpe steelworks.
Ground Granulated Blast furnace Slag (GGBS) is produced by quenching molten iron slag from a blast furnace in water or steam, to produce a glassy, granular product that is then dried and ground into a fine powder. It replaces up to 70% of the Portland Cement in concrete, and can significantly reduce CO2-emissions. Francis Flower produced GGBS in Scunthorpe on the grounds of British Steel upgrading their blast furnace slag. LKAB is also a significant supplier of highly upgraded iron ore products to British Steel, the first deliveries were made in the 1930’s. Francis Flower was the second largest supplier of GGBS in the UK.
The plant in the near background is operated by Calumite Limited which supplies glassmakers in the UK and overseas with Calumite, a refined blast furnace slag. Calumite is a glassy calcium-alumina-silicate that is used as a raw material in all types of soda-lime-silica glassmaking.
My Facebook account got flagged for policy violation and I was forced to delete all contents that show sculpture nudity on FB and Instagram. There were many photos that I had not shared elsewhere, so I took screen caps of the ones dearest to me: the snapshots I've posted during the process of hand sculpting a new generation of Inamorata body. They might not be brilliant photography, but in a world where most dolls are made with a computer, this painstaking labour of love is really special for me. So here are different stages and posing tests while sculpting. Hope you enjoy them!
So...I had solutions left from tea toning more cyanotype fabric and decided to play around with some old cyanotype prints. I have had a stash of less than optimal pieces for just such an occasion. I was attempting split toning, working to keeps some of the blue in the print and not bleach it all out. On a few of these it worked. Often times, as per what seems to be my usual, I get more such results when I'm not actively trying! But that's okay. Just trying to get myself back in the swing of things.