Well, I finally got around to playing with a few more cyanotypes this weekend, and couldn’t wait to share the results… so, I’m putting this up ahead of the many others in line- hope you don’t mind.

This was a shot taken quite a while back, last summer in Nelson’s Ledges State Park, in Ohio. I had never gotten around to posting any of the shots from there, though there are quite a few that I did like. But I’m getting to relive and rework some of the shots now with alternative processes, so it’s quite rewarding. This is perhaps my favorite of this past weekend’s work, though there were a few others I was quite satisfied with as well. I think I’m begging to get the technique down a bit better now, though exposures are still tough to judge especially on partly cloudy days where I’ll have full sun and heavy cloud cover in the during the same exposure… next I’m hoping to work on toning some of these, as I’ve seen some really gorgeous examples tones in tea or coffee.

Excuse the reproduction on this one too… I have to say it looks a bit better in person (not so splotchy). I couldn’t scan it well since the texture of the paper interfered quite a bit, so I just took a shot with my cough digital camera...

Cyanotype, Arches Cold Press 300gm, Digital Negative