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Friday, September 30, 2011

Life after Collodion365


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…

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