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Making art the ol' fashioned way, on film and paper
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So … While I say that this site is devoted to analog photography only, I am well aware of the inherent irony that to present these pics on the web requires them to be digital.

There is no way around that; the WWW is digitally native…

All I can say is that all the pics here are shot on film, hand developed, printed in an enlarger or by contact, and then scanned on my Epson V700 with no further digital alterations, tweaks or enhancements… It’s the best I can do …

8x10 field camera with 300 mm lens, Delta 100 film, contact printed on Ilford fiber-base paper

The Power of Water

June 07, 2025

I love waterfalls. Just being around them. Something about the noise, the visual of moving water, and the fact that they often lead to nice pics — it all adds up to an experiences I seek out frequently.

I am blessed to be in a part of the world with many waterfalls. Some of them are big, others small. They all have something that draw me in.

This falls is the Perry Creek waterfalls near Cranbrook. Here’s a cleaner version of that sentence:

While some might dislike the scrawled initials on the rocks at right, I like them. They remind me of hieroglyphics—modern-day markings that, in their own way, seem to echo the purpose of ancient handprints and deer silhouettes left by Indigenous peoples in these same places thousands of years ago.

Simple acknowledgement that we were here…

This is the same negative printed using the historic Van Dyke process, which creates an image on paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, resulting in a deep brown tone. This process, also known as an argentotype, uses a combination of ferric salts and silver nitrate to produce a print similar in colour to the oil painting pigment "Van Dyke brown.” Toning with gold changes the brown to a neutral or even prurpleyg bluish grey…


Tags: 8x10, contact, waterfalls
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