Northeast Ohio Meetup, May 11th - 13th

As the Spring weather warms up and the days grow longer, photographers in the temperate Northern Nemisphere begin to come out of their hibernation. Soon after, large groups of these odd creatures will meetup at random places all across the continent, to get together and share their knowledge of photography. Often times, they're share their previous year's trappings, demonstrate learned, successful techniques, and take many pictures of each other; a strange phenomenon, indeed.

The elder and tribal leader (left) is often seen asserting his dominance by use of a much larger 7x17 camera. Fascinating!

One of these peculiar meetings of photographers takes place this weekend, May 11th - 13th in Bath, OH. Be forewarned, though, this is no ordinary group of shutterbugs. Most of them shoot film, have crazy large cameras, and have work worthy of museum collection. Should you wish to witness some of this madness and more, look ahead at their forum posts on APUG. As a recent inductee into this nomadic flock of photographers, I'll be demonstrating a technique that's been popular with me this past year, Carbon Printing. This demo is completely free, inquire to the above link for details.

Stay tuned, as images and maybe even some video from this meeting of photographers will be making their way onto this blog soon.

Darkroom Workshops, Summer 2012

It's been one heck of a spring so far here in Findlay, OH, and even after several photo contests and a solo exhibition, the darkroom is only getting warmed up!

If you're looking to add a few new darkroom skills to the arsenal, or are just looking for some experienced darkroom coaching, be sure to check out my latest series of Summer 2012 Darkrom Workshops. As of right now, I'm offerring:

• One-on-One Workshops
• Carbon Printing
• Intro to the B&W Darkroom

 All workshops include use of the darkoom facilities, chemistry, supplies, paper, everything you need to carry out the processes I'm teaching. In the case of the all weekend carbon printing workshop, I'm even including lunch at a great local restaurant!

That's pretty much it, get out there and shoot while the weather is great, and once the "Dog Days" of summer start rolling around, have your calendars marked, film exposed, and head on down to Findlay so we can have some fun in the darkroom (see below).

Happy shooting, and long live film!

Spring Cleaning, Week 2

In celebration of "Tax Day" here in the USA, it's back to "Spring Cleaning" here in the darkroom. This week's deal is one that you will not see again on this site. In celebration of another 364 days until taxes are due again, here are my first four images made on 8x10 infrared film, available to you as 16x20" silver gealtin fiber prints, for the low, low price of $100 + S&H. Get 'em while they're hot off the press, literally, because they won't be here for long!

IR 16x20 Silver Gelatin Print

Litzenberg Park 1 Litzenberg Park 2 Maple Grove Cemetery 1 Maple Grove Cemetery 2

 Just a quick reminder, all B&W prints are hand made by me in the darkroom, are printed on double-weight fiber paper that has been selenium toned for archival permanence, signed and numbered by yours truly, and will ship encased in a protective sleeve and backboard. For the collectors out there, I'll only be printing these images as 16x20 until the end of this month, so consider this a very, very limited edition run.

Thanks all for looking, and as always, long live film!