Back after a long time
Hello! It's been about 5 years since I posted to this list. I joined at at time when I had just taken workshops in Platinum/Palladium and Gum printing and was all fired up to continue to explore alternative processes. Despite that early enthusiasm, I put up some mental road blocks to myself after a few early failures and returned to standard sliver-gelatin printing. A month or so ago I felt I was in a creative slump and decided that it was time to return to exploration of new areas. I have decided to work on a project in which I will shoot pinhole and zone plate images and print them using the Argyrotype process. I shot a number of negatives in early September in both 4x5 and 8x10 and spent the next several weeks developing the film while wating for my supplies to arrive from Bostick & Sullivan. A few things I needed were backordered, so I spent another few weeks biding my time and printing my negatives on silver-gelatin paper to get an idea of how they look as prints. Finally last weekend the rest of my materials arrived and Tuesday night I was able to finally get moving. The first two images I printed are available for viewing on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/23974660@N03/sets/72157608061261664/. I'd love some feedback, good or constructively bad. Thanks! Benno Jones www.bjonesphoto.com
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