Painting with Light - Rockland Colloid

There was an opportunity to trade a framed print for a Beseler 23CII enlarger. I was interested in using it to print images upon various surfaces, such as stones, metal, tiles or various types of paper. This was the first reasonably exposed image; however, some fine tuning is needed.

Carriage Horse - Chicago

The image is printed upon some 8 by 8 inch cold-press watercolor paper that was coated with Rockland's Liquid Light.

I have a better sense of applying the emulsion now, as it was too thick in this case. Also, I did not have blotting paper to properly treat the surface after it was rinsed - resulting in a lot of little blobs of emulsion. The materials are very easy to work with. When applying the emulsion to the watercolor paper, it is necessary to tape it to a flat surface, otherwise the paper will curl and is annoying to work with. A few more experiments, then I will post another version of this image.

American Made Tools

A pair of old tools from the depths...

Crushing It!

No. 1 Chicago

Long expired Ilford FP4 Plus, Horseman 45FA, 110mm Schneider lens.

A Swami in Stereo

The Swami Vivekenanda

An unplanned stereo pair from a trip to the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. This is with the Hasselblad, the 40mm Distagon C lens, and Ektar film.

Click for larger image. Slowly cross your eyes while looking at the center of the image, and a stereo illusion will appear.

The Swami Vivekananda

The illusions may be improved with some better positioning. I may work with them more in order to make some prints.

The Omniscope - 10-Bolt Self Portrait

I like to unroll things with the Abelson Scopeworks Omniscope pinhole camera.

This is the wheel from a firetruck. The camera was aligned with the center axis of the wheel. The Omniscope 'sees' a donut shape, just shy of a 360º circle. The image captured by the film is an unrolled version of the donut - in effect, a polar to rectangular conversion. For this image, I used Kodak E100GX, now discontinued.

In the image, there are 10 little reflections of me making the exposure - on the 10 bolts. To the right of the 6th bolt, there is a person (horizontal), as well as my tripod at the center of the image.

Exposure was in the range of two to three seconds. There is no viewfinder. I have used this enough to ray-trace the approximate view. There are always surprises - in this case the beautiful lighting artifacts, due to internal camera reflections. The lighting upon the tire brand with the little highlight was purely unexpected.

Click for a larger view.

Ten-Bolt Self Portrait

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Waiting for a few parts...

From a recent road trip through rural Illinois...

Scratch and dent sale

Beechcraft Model 18 or variant. Imaged with Hasselblad 501 CM, 50mm CB lens, Kodak Ektar film. Post-processing with Adobe Elements 11, Orton effect and vignette.

Furnace

From the Joliet Iron Works Historic site.

Echo Chamber

And you thought Fort Dodge lacked amusements...

Amusements. Sadly, this one has been dismantled.

Fun Time

Uplifting