About
Put simply: I am a photographer who recreates the earliest Photgraphy methods and processes to allow you to own unique portraits of yourself, your family, your friends and colleagues.
Wet plate collodion photography is a process of image making that goes back to the early years of photography. Images made using this method are unique, one-of-a-kind and have a very special antique look to them. It is as though, through the image making, we are connecting with the world of 130 years ago. That world of past images is ours to explore again through the medium of metal plates and ancient wet-chemistry.
I have been a keen photographer for over 40 years, and did my share of darkroom work in black and white and colour in the 70's and 80's. As a retired scientist I have a love for the sort of processes that involve chemical reactions and the magic of the action of light on silver compounds entrances me.
Somehow, since the advent of digital photography, we have lost something of the wonder of capturing images. Now we have thousands of images on our smartphones and our PC's, but often, the photographs we treasure are those old family portraits, those pictures that link us to the lives of our parents and grandparents.
Wet plate collodion photography allows you to own a unique heirloom portrait, that will be as clear in 100 years as the day it is taken. A portrait for your children and great-great grandchildren to treasure.
So, by using the cameras and equipment and chemistry of the past, I have found a way to capture the images of the past in the present. Join me and share the past brought to the present in unique plate photographs.
Here's a little snippet: "Silver nitrate, (I use this in my process) was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists, who believed that silver was associated with the moon
Lunar Caustic - what a beautiful name.
Wet plate collodion photography is a process of image making that goes back to the early years of photography. Images made using this method are unique, one-of-a-kind and have a very special antique look to them. It is as though, through the image making, we are connecting with the world of 130 years ago. That world of past images is ours to explore again through the medium of metal plates and ancient wet-chemistry.
I have been a keen photographer for over 40 years, and did my share of darkroom work in black and white and colour in the 70's and 80's. As a retired scientist I have a love for the sort of processes that involve chemical reactions and the magic of the action of light on silver compounds entrances me.
Somehow, since the advent of digital photography, we have lost something of the wonder of capturing images. Now we have thousands of images on our smartphones and our PC's, but often, the photographs we treasure are those old family portraits, those pictures that link us to the lives of our parents and grandparents.
Wet plate collodion photography allows you to own a unique heirloom portrait, that will be as clear in 100 years as the day it is taken. A portrait for your children and great-great grandchildren to treasure.
So, by using the cameras and equipment and chemistry of the past, I have found a way to capture the images of the past in the present. Join me and share the past brought to the present in unique plate photographs.
Here's a little snippet: "Silver nitrate, (I use this in my process) was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists, who believed that silver was associated with the moon
Lunar Caustic - what a beautiful name.