He Would Have Been 224 Today
Louis Daguerre, Fench inventor, would have been 224 today. Daguerre, along with Joseph Niépce, made photographic images using lavender and alcohol-coated …
Category Archives: Artistic Risk
Bringing Risk Into the Exhibition
Recently, I mentioned the concept of a collodion exhibition where the viewer becomes an active participant. By experiencing (touching and …
Wet Plate Collodion in the Field
The coolest thing about my wet plate collodion field camera is that it’s 11×14. The painest in the buttest thing …
Slapping Your Own Hand in Wet Plate Collodion
A few nights ago, my wife, Alane, were watching Project Runway (yes, I’m a renaissance man interested in all things …
It’s the Little Things…
It’s the little things that drive me crazy. If I ever die of a heart attack, most likely, it won’t …
Making a Brilliant Middle
Originally, I planned to wait for this post until my birthday on November 14th, but when the post is about …
Changing the Engine of a Project
I’m listening to the National Public Radio’s Car Talk podcast #1142 (“Do Cars Have Souls?”). A caller just said he’s …
Melting Mom
My mom would have been 70 today. Happy birthday Mom. To read about the making of this wet plate collodion …
Charting a Flow
In engineering school, I learned that good computer programming begins with a flowchart, a diagram of shapes, figures and lines …
Conjuring the Truth
About ten years ago, Mark Osterman,Photographic Process Historian at George Eastman House, and one half of the Scully and Osterman …
Mapping the Edge 