Tintypes and Excitement

I LOVE it when I find a new (to me) photographer that gets me excited! I just love seeing the world through their eyes and it gets my creative juices flowing. Wahoo! I found Harry Taylor. He is AMAZING!

Harry Taylor is a fine art photographer based in North Carolina. Harry mostly works in the Wet Plate Collodion process, this involves large format cameras, up to 16x20 and on site processing in a portable darkroom. This work explores the American South; Harry's home and base.

I learned how to do this process last year and I LOVED IT. The Wet Plate Collodion Process stains your fingertips a dark brown color and it just made me feel like I was making art again. There's something to be said about getting your hands dirty, don't you think?

http://www.harrytaylorphoto.com/ 

tin type
by harry.taylor

tin type

by harry.taylor

Definition From Wikipedia:

Tintype, also melainotype and ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a sheet of iron metal that is blackened by painting, lacquering or enameling and is used as a support for a collodion photographic emulsion.
Photographers usually worked outside at fairs, carnivals etc. and as the support of the tintype (there is no actual tin used) is resilient and does not need drying, photographs can be produced only a few minutes after the picture is taken.

Cool Breezes

Well, I woke up today and the air has changed here in Montana. The pressure has dropped a little and I can feel Autumn creeping in. The apples in my back yard have dropped to the ground and are in various states of decomposition. I'm finding bones that my dog Pickle has brought onto the property. The few tomatoes you can grow here in Bozeman are a lovely shade of green-orange. I had to sleep with my door closed for the first time in months. I welcome the changes whole heartedly. Au revoir summer.

lady.bug.skeleton

photo by clare.parsons

missing.wings

photo by clare.parsons

sleepy.hunter

photo by clare.parsons

Accidental Pictures

Don't you love it when you start going through archived photos of your own, and you find something that you might have previously overlooked, and then you see something you took, that with a little bit of editing, might be great? I found this one yesterday.

More of the Lovely Kennedy

This is Kennedy G. She is a Senior in High School this year and her and her family flew out to Montana from Michigan so that they could be here for her sister's new baby, and so that I could take their picture!

The fires made the smokey air hard to breathe, but the smoke made the light beautifully diffused. These were all taken at Hyalite Canyon, about 15 miles outside Bozeman, Montana.

They turned out beautiful, but it make my job easy when you have a beautiful model...

 

Grandpa Howard and Me

This is a picture of my Grandfather, Howard R. Delaney. I really grew up with him as a father figure in my life. We used to talk and talk and talk. Recently, I started doing some research into my family history, and my 2cnd cousin sent this to me. I love it!

Shortly after I received this photo, my uncle Martin sent me one of me as a baby! I think we look alike. What do you think?

   

Howard circa 1916

Clare circa 1984

My Professors

              So, this semester, fall 2013, I'm taking Experimental Photography AND Professional Practices in Photography, along with Philosophy of Astrobiogeocatalysis... Here are the photo professors websites! Check 'em out! They are so great!

http://www.christinazanderson.com/

http://www.alexispike.com

Kennedy's Senior Pictures

So, I spent the most wonderful day in Hyalite Canyon, at the reservoir and down the mountain a little. We lucked out with the most incredible natural light and these perfect breezes!

Eyes, Eyes, Eyes

Smiling Sweetheart

Beautiful, Naturally