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Flatirons, CO.

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Tintype "From the compost".

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Tintype "From the compost".

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Tintype "From the compost".

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Tintype "From the compost".

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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Tintype.

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Tintype from the "Music" collection.

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Officer Gulch, CO. Tintype.

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Officer Gulch, CO. Tintype

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Officer Gulch, CO.

Officer Gulch is one of my favorite spots in Colorado. It is a beautiful little lake off Hwy 70, 5 minutes up from Frisco, CO. I love to go fishing there with my two daughters or walk around the lake and take in the beauty of the surrounding mountains.
I had meant to go take wet-plate collodion photographs of that area since I got started with the process. I finally got to it and here is the first one.
On a side note, after taking a couple photographs, I caught a nice trout. My daughter, Enora, caught the most beautiful little cutthroat trout and my wife, Rachel, and oldest daughter, Elaiza, caught the last trout of the day. All in all a good day!

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Ambrotype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens".

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I ran out of aluminum plates for my tintypes, so I decided to give ambrotypes another try. Ambrotypes are wet-plate collodion photographs made on glass.  They appear as a negative image in front of a light background and as a positive image in front of a dark background. It is quite magical.

The results I had gotten with ambrotypes in the past were not to my liking and since then I have felt a bit intimidated by the process. I had thought I should adapt my technique and chemical formulas from tintypes to ambrotypes and wasn't sure what I should really do.

I just realized, thanks to a post by Eddie Gunks on collodion.com, that I probably didn't need to change anything. Here is my first ambrotype in seven months:

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Tintype from "A collection of somewhat random specimens"