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Recently, I came across these photos from the Alternate Processes class I took at CWU. These were taken using a 4x5 view camera (owned by the university) and printed using the Cyanotype and Van Dyke processes. They were taken at Olmstead Place State Park, between Ellensburg and Kittitas Washington, which is a preserved pioneer farm. The prints are hand coated on watercolor paper. Both processes use contact printing and are only sensitive to UV light. Because these prints use contact printing, the print sizes are limited to the size of the negatives, so either a large format negative or an internegative (I have some larger photos printed using "digital" negatives) must be used. This is some of the old farm equipment on display at the farm. The farm is a living history museum, and they do demonstrations of old time farming, however, this equipment is a static display. This photo is printed using the Cyanotype process. This is a old one room school that was moved to the fa...

I'm presently taking Art 325B, Photography II, Alternate processes, as a break from all business classes, all the time! (I only need to take two business classes to finish the degree) Our first assignment incorporated several different formats, which included 4x5 view camera work, two rolls of film in a Holga, one roll of 35mm, and 30 digital images, exploring typical and atypical 19th century subjects. This was from the digital work: This was growing in my front lawn in Covington, so I decided I better photograph it before the lawn mower cut it down. This was taken with my Nikon D70, and a 55mm f2.8 AiS Micro Nikkor, probably about 1/2 life size. From the TMax 100 An old truck in Ellensburg, taken with my Nikon FM and 24-135 Tamron. Stay tuned for the 4x5 and Holga!