Happy 2012, Now Featuring Workshops!

Happy New Year, and may 2012 be a happy, healthy, prosperous year for all! 

If one of your New Year's Resolutions is to try film photography, get into the darkroom more, or just learn something new, be sure to check out the brand new Workshops section of this site (above). At the drop-down menu you'll notice two available workshops at the moment, Carbon Transfer Printing*, and One-On-One darkroom time.

*the carbon workshop date isn't set in stone yet, so if you have a date/time that works for you let me know!

2012 Resolutions, Just for Kicks

Many other photographers I know and follow are already posting their New Year's Resolutions for 2012. Not wanting to be left in the dust, I got to thinking what things I could do a bit differently in 2012. So far, here's what I've come up with...

2012 Photographic Resolutions:

1. Conceptualize - For the coming year, I want most if not all the images I take to have some meaning behind them; a unifying theme amongst them wouldn't hurt either. Snapshots, even 8x10" ones on wet plate collodion, aren't going to cut it.
2. Mobilize - To move outside the University of Findlay darkroom, I want my wet plate work operable and independent of a singular space. Lighting and darkbox are already in place, just a few more steps to complete.
3. Galvanize - Using whatever means available, I want to inspire others to get into or improve their photography. 
4. Monetize - This is always something I wish to improve upon each year, but I want 2012 to be an especially big year on the books. Last year, save a couple of books here and there, my photography paid for itself! Let's see if 2012 can see the year of *gasp* a profit!

So why do all of my resolutions contain an "-ize" word? I've always been a big stickler for consistency and continuity in my projects, and if resolution #1 is going to be met for 2012, better get started early!

As always, let me know what you think of this post a comment, send an email, or even let me know what you're planning on doing for 2012.

Everyone have a save and happy New Year, and long live film!

Update on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 9:14PM by Mat Marrash

I'm going to be "checking up" on the 2012 resolutions throughout the year, as things progress and (hopefull) get accomplished.

3/14/12 Resolutions Report

1. Looking back, its quite an unrealistic goal to have everything I shoot contain something meaningful. Somewhere along the way I've remembered the joy of shooting just to shoot! ^__^
2. The mobile wet plate darkroom is 85% completed, and already "road worthy".
3. Already inspiring may new and upcoming photographers, right on track.
4. Monetization is, so far, going very well. I expect the coming weeks to really make 2012 the year of the green.

Now Selling Prints!

Washing a fiber print in the Univeristy of Findlay darkroom. Photo by Dan Domme, 2011.Keeping the new features coming (the best still to come!), I'm now offering fine art B&W, alternative process, and color prints of any work you see here in the Gallery or my Flickr account.

All B&W and alternative process prints are hand printed by me in the darkroom, while color prints are digital c-prints professionally managed by one of the top remaining labs in the U.S. Standard B&W enlarged prints are all made on double-weight, fiber-based paper, hand spotted, and selenium toned to provide the most archivally stable, brilliantly toned images possible. Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown prints are made on 250lb. hot pressed, smooth watercolor papers, they'll be around for a long while. ;) Carbon prints have almost as much archival stability as platinum/palladium prints, and as a bonus have very noticeable relief to them!

As one additional offer, I'm creating a limited edition portfolio for my body of work in 2011. Portfolios will ship in their own 11x14" black leatherette, museum quality storage box, and will contain 10, 8x10" images all hand printed, spotted, toned, signed, and matted 11x14", ready for showing. The silver gelatin printed edition will be limited to 9, while the very special carbon transfer portfolio will be one-of-a-kind, much like the carbon prints themselves.

That's pretty much it, folks. If you're interested in getting some fine art prints, head on over to the Prints section of the website for more information. Prints can quickly and conveniently be purchased directly through the website, via Paypal, or you can email me for more options. Thanks and continue to have Happy Holidays!