Gum Bichromate Prints

I have tried out a few different alternative photographic processes but gum bichromate is my favorite. It gives me the most control and the most flexibility. I can use 1 negative or 3 or 4. I can make them color if I want to. I can even make a single negative gum look like a color image. I can bleach them, sand them, scrub them, crumple them and pretty much anything else I feel like doing to them. I love Fabriano and Arches papers the most. I get my chemicals from Bostick and Sullivan and prefer their gum and 10% potassium bichromate. I use a 1 to 1 formula and very little pigment. I expose the prints with the sun because I simply cannot pay the prices for the exposure units. Sometimes I register the negatives and sometimes I don’t. When I register the negatives, all I do is lay the negative over the blank paper and make the marks on the paper with pencil and then trace over them onto the negative. Not an exact science but it works. I really love this process and believe that I have found THE process for my work.

Some of these prints are for sale at my Etsy store. I still haven’t figured out how to get a link posted yet but here is the addy – http://www.etsy.com/shop/MojavePhotography?ref=si_shop

Life Support for Japan

Been a while since I created a post and what better way to break the silence than to let you all know about a few different opportunities available right now to help Japan in its great hour of need.

If you are a photographic artist and would like to donate your work with all sales proceeds going to different charitable organizations that will help Japan, here is what you will need to do.

Submit your single, best image 72 dpi and 1000 pixels max on the longest side to the emails listed on the sites. You need to include your name, title of image, year it was taken, the size of the print and how the image will be printed, should it sell. The images will be displayed in online auctions and you will be responsible for printing the image if it sells and will only be required to print the image if it sells.

Please visit the blogs and websites for further information.

Suzi Livingstones blog auction

http://froupster.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/we-love-japan-donation-info/

Crista Dix and Aline Smithsons auction site

http://wall-spacegallery.com/displayShow.php?showID=122&collection=3

or find them on Facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_152307174828432

Ok, so I dont know how to post links in blobspot. Who knew? Just cut and paste the line into the address line in your browser to get to the site you want to go to.

Desert Series

More images from the Impossible film desert series, which is really just a part of what will most likely become the largest series of images I will ever create, spanning many years and many different types of cameras and film.

I love the desert. I connected to it spiritually at a very young age and even though age and responsibility took me away from it for quite some time, I knew I'd return eventually.

PX600 v06 by The Impossible Project

This film behaves very much like the PZ600 for the Spectra cameras but seems a bit more stable to me.

PX70 Color Shade by The Impossible Project

All these images were shot using a 600 camera. This film is optimized for use in the SX-70 camera but I really like the results from the 600. Very unpredictable and that's what I like the most about it. They go from looking very saturated, like a Van Gogh colors, to very pastel, like Monet colors.

Polaroid Peel Apart Film

I have fallen in love with instant film. I know, I know. It's on its way out. But, that doesnt mean that I can't have fun while it lasts.

The following images were all shot using Polaroid 100 peel apart instant film in my Holgaroid camera. Its just one version of the special editions put out by the Impossible Project. This is the Paul Giambarba Sepia film. The ISO is 1500, which is the only Paul Giambarba peel apart film TIP sells that has this high ISO. At least from what I could find.

Really diggin' the Silver Shade

I think the biggest problem that I have with this film is myself. What I mean is, whenever I dont like a picture, its not because of the film but because of how I took the picture. But, when I get the composition, lighting and subject matter right all at once, I just can't anything else right now that can compete for my attention like the PZ 600 film from the Impossible Project can.

Here are my favs out of 20 exposures.