A Sunprint Landscape

A year and a half ago, while experimenting with a new process, I created a photograph of the rocky shoreline at Muir beach. The camera was moved by the tide during the three day exposure, but somehow the negative did not double expose, and it was not destroyed. The resulting image was the only image I have created that I feel actually reflects the beauty of its surrounding landscape. Since then I have been trying to capture it again. I had built that first camera, and have continued to refine the practice in my attempts of image making. I have found that many of the choices that I have made in the development of this process relate to my own tendencies of nostalgia and thoughts of nature and the wonder that lies beyond the trail.

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8x10 Field Camera

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Cypress on Creekbed, Negative, Enlargement, Final Enlargement

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Houston Center Of Photography Fellowship Submission

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This is the beginnings of a house I am building in Hunt TX, the stone work is done and next year i will return to build weathertight the building!

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Oregon is such a curious mystery.

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Our model of the pallet shower house

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Building minature pallets for a model of the passive solar heated shower house, Eric and I are building at the Upper Rouge Organic farm in prospect OR

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The new portable darkroom tent :) complete with safelight

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A few photographs from my new portfolio, I plan on rebuilding the box with some old salvaged fir 1X12's i found. Once the box is built I would like to redo the interior with a deep red almost blackish velvet, unfortunately I don't have the funds right now so padded cotton will have to do. This Portfolio houses 11 framed images . I will repost better documentation when I have it.

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Some Documentation shots of a short Installation.

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Finally a picture of my home built large format camera which is set up to photograph paper negatives using available lighting.

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been working on documenting the process in which i make photographs

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A fun project experimenting with darkroom manipulation and abstraction from a year ago.

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These are the first experiments with extreme long exposure, that eventually led to the building of the process i am working on right now. This was about 2 years ago, they are two week exposures.

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Breakthrough just in time.

I acquired 25 sheets of grade 5 fiber paper from a friend, and used it in my camera to photograph my negatives, I had the most luck to date with contrast in the positives. the camera is fully functioning and can enlarge a 1inch object to 8X10 sharply. Unfortunately they do not make grade 5 paper anymore as far as i can tell, so I am sensing a lot more experimentation with developers and heat. I think if I find a way to safely heat a very concentrated paper developer, I will be able to bring in enough contrast into the photograph on grade 4 paper, which is still available, to account for the 2000 kelvin difference between the tungsten bulbs in enlargers (which color filters and graded paper are designed for) and daylight. If i can't, hopefully there will be enough contrast that i will be able to over expose and then use a dilute potassium ferricyanide to bleach the whites back in without affecting the rich blacks to much. I will post some pictures of work in progress soon, and there is a show coming up at 1111 8th st, San Francisco.