So apparently I don't know how to load film. Loaded my film backwards and both rolls were blank. Hard work, lost. Feeling really dumb and inadequate. So I will have to have another photo session this weekend and hope that I can do it right this time. Feeling frustrated right now. Apparently I can only do it right the first time. I have a busy weekend......

Now that I am scanning such small material I have to make better scans to then make large prints with in the next couple weeks. Very excited about this work.

Swatches edited:

Sent two rolls of film out today and hope to get it back within the week and develop those negatives. Very excited to see what came of my photo shoot so that I can determine if it something I am going to continue with. I will be editing some images and posting them shortly from my last exposure.

So I go some marks from the grapes that I left on a leaf from this weekend, here is the image:

I had the discussion with a mentor of mine about why I color the paper? What is the importance so this is a test of a large sheet of 140lb watercolor paper at the bottom of my steps that is recording my dogs and I and our daily acts of going up and down the steps. I am hoping it will go through some different weather patterns and see what that does to the paper. This I will leave out for some weeks.

So I just made some dipped swatches with my old emulsions from some time ago. The different in the emulsions age is interesting now and I am curious how the paper and color will react given its older than it was when I first made it. I placed all the papers in the dirt some what in the garden that is at its end. I will leave these out I think for at least a week and see what kind of marks are made from them. 

Scans again

So here are the tests I have made for the day. I have decided two things are certain, I love to expose the anthotypes without drying the paper completely and I really am attracted to the small tests. There is something about the size when making them that creates a more cellular and impressive print to me than me trying to compose on a larger sheet of paper. From this I will scan and my next step is to make some large prints of these smaller cellular scans and see how they look large. This type of detail is not obtainable through a larger print because this a very intimate scale. I have a love for the connection of the paper, juice, and produce on top and how it they all feed off each other. These images are done from three types a beet and wine mix and a beet and purple potato mix along with a sprayed beet mix. The type of absorbent effect I get from these wet prints did not happen completely on these because of the fact that I exposed the dry material that I  have had in the house from the last exposures that I wanted to use again to see what kind of images they would yield. This produce will then be composted and used to then create soil for the idea of growing my own beets in my house so that all my materials will be coming solely from my house. This will give me a larger connection with my material and images.
This is my set up from earlier today:
It is important to note that the images you saw yesterday on the glass that I was photographing in the basement that material was just tossed on the papers coated here ready to expose. I did not place them down strategically I simply dropped the glass down and let all the material fall off and left it at that. I am trying to step away from control for these images and making it more about process than anything.

These are just scanned and not edited at all.

These are from the sprayed beets:

These images are from the beet and purple potato mix:

This is a close up of this image scanned again because I thought it was interesting. 

These images are from the beet and wine mix: