'Shave' in Ambrotype
A long overdue overhaul was needed mentally and physically and websitedly (what? not a word?). It’s easy to lock yourself up in the darkroom for a year with all sorts of funky chemicals and 2011 was my year to do it. I taught minimal classes, shot minimal clients and my online presence while not intended, was minimal as well. I suppose I can consider it climbing the photography mountain and living with the monks for a year, speaking very little and listening a lot.
I read tons of crazy technical books and magazines, the ones from a century ago and smell like feet. Also the digitized ones that end up on Project Gutenberg or Google Books for free. I shot lots of film, enlarged to lots of paper, exposed lots of crazy chemicals under UV and halogen lights. Built and destroyed cameras, built and destroyed lenses.
