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Latest roll off the Rollei. I make so many dorky mistakes with this one, but it's my dedicated camera for the next several months til I get it into my bones. Phone photos inverted in LR and taken while negs were hanging up to dry. Thus the weird side stripes (shiny water streaks) and the strange texture (the paper plate I held behind them for contrast). We're not Ansel-Adams-precious here.

Calling all Central Vermont and Upper Valley photographers to come out of the woods and meet each other! Bring work in any state of completion Bring your questions and hopes for the WRCC darkroom---currently the only public darkroom between Burlington and Brattleboro. BYOB

One of the exciting projects I have cooking this summer is a projected video sequence for an experimental Shakespeare show. Here are some stills from the first shoot day, taken right up the road from my house. Last 2 are just off my phone so I can brag about my ridiculous Vermont Subaru lifestyle. Slide 3 uses my beloved moon filter from @spektremeffects I'm looking forward to sharing the final video here later this summer.

Open Studios was awesome. Before folks came in to see the darkroom, I managed to develop the last black and white mystery roll from my dad's stash. It's 616 film, aka 70mm--IMAX size. This probably was shot with a Brownie. Tank reels for this size are really hard to find, though there is a method of rigging 2 Patterson reels together. I tried a few months ago, but the film was wound so tight, there was no coaxing it into the grooves. I said some prayers and developed it by dunking it into a pitcher of HC-110. I was able to drag the film through enough that I ended up with...5 shots of something. It might be my grandparents' house? Negatives are dense and show a lot of damage from 50 years of being pressed against the backing paper. But this was the final roll before I attempt developing the very fragile color film.

Pulled together some prints and cyanotype business cards for @wrcraftcenter open studios 🎞🚨🎞 Here 10-5 today and tomorrow. Turn the spaceship door and say hi!

This spring and summer are shaping up to be busy in a lot of really great ways. Find me in the @wrcraftcenter darkroom Vermont Open Studio Weekend in Randolph on Saturday 2-5 and Sunday 10-5. I'll be under the magical red lights, demonstrating film developing and printing of some of my recent fun camera tests. I might even have some cyanotypes on hand and maybe possibly be shooting portraits. I've been working for months to get this space in shape and I'm thrilled to show it off. If you're looking for something to do before the weather cheers up, curious about the process, or just wanna see my face, stop by!

Prepping the @wrcraftcenter darkroom for Open Studios next weekend. This space has undergone such a satisfying transformation in the last few months.

Self-indulgent darkroom selfie. My weekdays are a blur of word docs, PDFs, and emails. This is my analog antidote. Mini print sale coming up next week. Postcards, cyanotypes, one-offs.

Quickie photogram I pulled this weekend. Been deep cleaning and organizing the @wrcraftcenter darkroom for a relaunch later this spring. Scrubbing down ages of dust from the machines and rerouting the electrical cables to their correct directions is a nice physical metaphor for unclogging my own process. Got a lot of hybrid/alt process ideas brewing and a few summer projects on the tip of my tongue.

More cropped previews to tease things cooking because I get weirdly paranoid about putting art on the s0cialz

Beginning

Added this as my first image over on Cara (find me @ albo) I've been following the creator for a while and she is an artist standing up for artist protection in several legal capacities. I'm perpetually skeeved about sharing my work online, and have a huge backlog of photography that has never seen the light of day. Took this photo a year ago when I was first moving in to a beautiful, but temporary space. Now I am moving into a less beautiful but less temporary space, where I hope to let my more creative endeavors flourish after years of stress and survival.