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A beautiful spring day, so I gathered up my gear, and headed to my usual spot for some tintype work. All them chemicals were months old, and I was curious as to whether I would even get an image. Set up was a little slower. Out of practice. I had to talk myself through eachContinue reading “Second attempt”

Another beautiful day for wet plate work. Sunny, but not crazy hot. New batch of silver nitrate mixed up the other day, and “excited “ . This just means that a glass plate was coated with colloidian, and placed in the silver bath, but rather than pulling it out after four minutes, as one wouldContinue reading “8x10day!”