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Repost @silverandlight: With this process you can run into some problems you can't fix or figure out when you're out in the field. We like to just embrace those things when they happen. @ian_ruhter @will_eichelberger @cs_k @lvance2010 #silverandlight #ambrotype #wetplate #wetplatecollodion Post/Photo by: @cs_k

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We started the @silverandlight instgram back up!! To see photos from the crew and my self follow us.Repost @silverandlight Some trees up in the hills today! @ian_ruhter @lvance2010 @will_eichelberger @cs_k #silverandlight #40x40camera #ambrotype Post by: @cs_k

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We are preparing for our next show at the Danziger Gallery in New York / November 2015. I believe The Monument Valley prints are some of the best ones we've created so far. It was nice to show them to our friends before we ship them out. @lvance2010 @will_eichelberger @cs_k #silverandlight #NewYork #art Thank you for helping put it all together. @finderofrarethings @faheykleingallery @danzigergallery

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I'm getting ready to varnish our new round of glass plates. These plates would be considered rejects by most of the people who work with the Wet Plate collodion process. We've been reading the troubleshooting sections of various wet plate manuals and reverse engineering problems. I'm very happy with the way these came out. #Salon des Refusés @will_eichelberger @lvance2010 @cs_k

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Packing up form a long and rewarding day. @lvance2010 @will_eichelberger @cs_k #40x40camera #laketahoe #photography

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It's so amazing to be able to hold a giant glass plate after you make it. We look at these as objects not so much photograph. This one came out really good we will have to varnish it and show you the end result!! @lvance2010 @will_eichelberger @cs_k #silverandlight #ambrotype #art #40x40camera #wetplate #photography

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A bit of rain won't stop us!! @will_eichelberger @lvance2010 @cs_k #silverandlight #wetplate #40x40camera

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The rover has landed. @will_eichelberger @lvance2010 @cs_k #emeraldBay #laketahoe #wetplate #mars

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Here is a 27"x36" plate of some native Old growth #laketahoe #trees. It's hard to imagine that most all of the native Tahoe trees were cut down back in the day. Trees are some of my favorite things. @will_eichelberger @lvance2010

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In 100 years from now someone else will most likely own this plate. It's interesting to think that they will know that the actual image was created and present at the location depicted on the plate. That's what so neat about the wet plate process. For example if you were able to hold an original plate of Abraham Lincoln you would know that it was in the same room with him at the exact time and place where it was created. #Ambrotype #27x36 #wetplate #silverandlight @will_eichelberger @lvance2010

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Between a rock and a good place. @will_eichelberger @lvance2010 #silverandlight #wetplate #tahoe

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@will_eichelberger sitting on our camera taking a much needed break. he's been working on Silver and light and his home personal art projects. He likes to describe this as college hours. It's interesting looking at this picture and realizing that he sitting on a camera that goes inside of and even larger camera. @lvance2010 #silverandlight #art #giganticcameras #wetplate

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