From: Christina Z. Anderson (tracez@mcn.net)
Date: 12/01/00-12:14:06 PM Z
This makes me want to move to Wyoming, and I even live in Montana!
Chris
> Hi Gang:
>
> It's been a busy month here in Big Wonderful Wyoming. After 5 long years
> without a darkroom, I finally have my new darkroom up and running. I made
> several gum dichromate test prints, using 5+ year old stock solutions of
gum
> arabic/pigments combined with fresh solutions of ammonium dichromate and
> potassium dichromate. Beautiful prints resulted, even when using a batch
of
> gum and Winsor Newton Permanent Rose that smelled very sour.
>
> Braving subzero (fahrenheit!) temperatures last weekend, I blew the dust
off
> my long-neglected 4X5 and descended deer trails to the nearby Shoshone
> River. Dense fog, hoarfrost coating every twig and blade of grass, and a
> blanket of snow combined to create the ultimate in B&W and cyanotype/gum
> landscapes. I exposed over twenty sheets of HP5 and several sheets of
> Ektachrome. Join me in praying to the photo gods that this old film will
> not be fogged or color-shifted!
>
> Thousands of ducks and geese came down from Canada in the wake of the cold
> front, and eagles have returned as well. A neighbor's dog tangled with a
> mountain lion less than 200 yards from my house, and I've been tracking
the
> big cat down by the river. No photos of course.... I'm guaranteed to
never
> see the lion if I go down there equipped with a Nikon and a long telephoto
> lens. So far I've seen only lion tracks and plenty of nervous deer.
>
> When I wasn't glued to the television listening to lawyers argue about
> "pregnant chads", I read issues #1-5 of The World Journal of Post-Factory
> Photography. Great publication. Thanks Judy.
>
> Best regards,
> Dave Rose aka Cactus Cowboy
> Powell, Wyoming
>
>
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