As with the other prints I’ve posted, this doesn’t really translate to digital very well; everything I’ve done to try to bring these online leaves the images somewhat washed out and thin-looking. Perhaps someday I’ll have a breakthrough and re-post all of these.

Brooke, owner of Dragontown Corsets in Jim Thorpe, PA. This was, I believe, from the 2007 St. Patty’s parade.

5 layers of 3/16″ glass, for a total of 9 printings (double-printed most of the layers). I think I only woun …[more]

From 2009’s Jim Thorpe St. Patty’s parade, originally shot on a Canon 5D.

This is a 6-layer casein-on-glass print; two layers of each magenta, cyan, and yellow. Visually, I’m happy with it. But it doesn’t fit well in the frames that I like, so I’ll probably double-up the printing of the magenta and yellow layers. I want to leave the cyan as two distinct layers, which helps the tartan over this man’s shoulder (upper-right) appear to “float” over the rest of the print.

Sheila of the Gilded Cupid B&B in Jim Thorpe, PA surveying the St. Patty’s Day parade route in 2010.

This was originally a digital shot, printed as a casein bichromate on six layers of glass – about 30 hours of work, including the dozens of layers that I printed and discarded. The final print is just over half an inch thick.

During the process of making this print, I’ve cataloged about 20 different variables that are affecting the prin …[more]

Happy Father’s Day! I got three awesome presents today.

First, a bowl of radishes from our garden. Yummy, but photographically uninteresting.

Second, some sodium citrate and tartaric acid. Yay more kallitypes!

Third, the first hints of success with the process that I’ve been trying to get a hold on for something like 7 months now.

This shot is a reasonable but somewhat untrue representation of a shot through my first monstrosity: a 10×12″ casein print on glass. …[more]