Please save the date for August 25th.  I am grateful to share my tintype portraiture with JDC fine art.  The show will run August 3 - October 31, 2012.  The opening reception will be held on August 25th from 5 - 7:30 pm.  The press release is attached below!

This image is the end result of a 'you build it' dinosaur bones kit.  First the dino bones, uh little wood pieces :), were fitted together.  Then he was all ready for his tintype portrait.  I plated this image to brown aluminum to warm up those brittle dino bones.  Just for fun! Happy Tuesday!

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This group of tintypes are a part of a larger mosaic piece entitled eat blueberries.  The individual tintypes measure 5"x7".

On Saturday I hosted a tintype workshop at my studio.  The video below is a slideshow of the day and the tintypes and ambrotypes that were made.  We used a variety of different colored glass and metals to make our tintypes, and we exposed using miniature and toy cameras.  It was a fun day and for five new tintypers, a successful first venture into wet plate collodion photography.

Isn't it hard to stand still!?  Last weekend Jack and his parents came by the studio to pick up some work.  I had my portable darkroom set up outside so we made a tintype in the traditional style.  Traditional in that there were no strobe lights!  For this tintype Jack stood on a stool with his toy monkey for 5 seconds while I held open the lens.  The bit of movement that we captured in this photograph reminded Jack's mom of an old image of her father at the same age.  I feel like we froze a moment of Jack's childhood with this shot, albeit fuzzy like far away thoughts of our own childhood memories.