04-02-2022, 10:07 AM
Rich, THought you would get it as you knew darkroom.
Natalie, I suppose the images need an explanation. The first one is not a pagan ritual. The city burns a pile of Christmas trees every year. This year the Prairie Sculptors mage giant snowmen around it. When lit people gathered and the snowmen melted. Long before digital high ISO I shot in high speed B&W. Later I posterized using Kodalith film and made colour Cibachrome copies. Using a colour enlarger I first set up a B&W RC print as a register template. I had a heavy light tight paper box I could put the exposed Cibachrome paper in. One Kodalith positive per colour was used and registered by eye. Then 1 at a time each sheet was carefully put in the 16x20 paper easle. exposures were made. The last one was the yellow white of the fire. The first was the blue sky.
I actually sold 15 or so framed copies, much to my amazement [and everyone elses - especially the framer who kept getting orders.
The other is what the river looks like at -40 below. A heating plant keeps the river from freezing over, but copious amounts of ice fog is produced. It is quite magical with the sun bursting through. This one is a hand coloured B&W copied to 4x5 slide film and again a cibachrome print. The only way I can see it to be disturbing if there was a fire breathing dragon flying in the mix. It really looks like this.
Natalie, I suppose the images need an explanation. The first one is not a pagan ritual. The city burns a pile of Christmas trees every year. This year the Prairie Sculptors mage giant snowmen around it. When lit people gathered and the snowmen melted. Long before digital high ISO I shot in high speed B&W. Later I posterized using Kodalith film and made colour Cibachrome copies. Using a colour enlarger I first set up a B&W RC print as a register template. I had a heavy light tight paper box I could put the exposed Cibachrome paper in. One Kodalith positive per colour was used and registered by eye. Then 1 at a time each sheet was carefully put in the 16x20 paper easle. exposures were made. The last one was the yellow white of the fire. The first was the blue sky.
I actually sold 15 or so framed copies, much to my amazement [and everyone elses - especially the framer who kept getting orders.
The other is what the river looks like at -40 below. A heating plant keeps the river from freezing over, but copious amounts of ice fog is produced. It is quite magical with the sun bursting through. This one is a hand coloured B&W copied to 4x5 slide film and again a cibachrome print. The only way I can see it to be disturbing if there was a fire breathing dragon flying in the mix. It really looks like this.