It’s been a month since I complete my Collodion365 project.
After taking wet-plate collodion photographs on an almost daily basis, I spent
4 weeks without touching my camera. I needed the respite…
I have also been busy preparing my upcoming show in October.
I have done a lot of printing, mounting and visualizing. I am really excited
about the show and believe it will look great.
I the past couple days, I have been feeling the urge to
shoot again. I needed my collodion fix, so yesterday I went out to take a few
landscape photographs. I was a bit anxious to see if I’d lost some of the
control I had acquired over the process. Also I sold the enclosed trailer I
used as a mobile darkroom (I am hoping to invest in an 8x10 camera), and
reverted to using my cardboard-box-mobile-darkroom. It looks like this:
I was curious to see if I could manage the same results in a
less comfortable and less roomy environment. I headed down Hwy 93 towards
Golden to photograph the plains and a rock formation that towers over the highway.
After a couple unsatisfying images, I found a spot I liked and produced this
diptych:
It turned out pretty well, which was very reassuring. I am
looking forward to continuing creating landscape collodion photographs. It
might have to wait for next Spring, but by that time I should have a larger
camera and have designed a mobile darkroom to take on hiking and biking trails.
Or I will have bought a lama to carry my gear…
