Pandemic Shed

A fitting end for 2021. The sign says "Closed Due to Covid-19". This image was made with a Holga camera in Canoe Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
 

Once There Was a Path Here

Malpeque, Prince Edward Island
Holga
 

A Seaside Mirage

Lower Darnley, Prince Edward Island
Modified Agfa Isoly
 

An Undefined Shore

Lower Darnley, PEI
Holga multiple exposure

 

Where the Land Meets the Sea

Lower Darnley, PEI
Kodak Brownie Hawkeye with flipped lens
Kodak Verichrome Pan, expired 9/1982

 

Cabot

It's been two years since I've been able to travel to Prince Edward Island.
Hello again old friend.

Malpeque, PEI
Ondu 6x6 pinhole

 

Where the Lagoon Ends

Debonair (Diana camera clone)

Saugus River #22

Saugus River

Debonair (Diana camera clone)

 

Church Street

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash with flipped lens. Kodak Verichrome Pan film, expired 6/1976.

The Change

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash with flipped lens. Kodak Verichrome Pan film expired 6/1976.

Burlington, VT
                                            

Champlain #14

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash with flipped lens and Kodak Verichrome Pan film (expired 6/1976)

Burlington, VT

The Gallery at Still River Editions 10 Year Retrospective Group Exhibition

 

I'm so happy that my good friends at The Gallery at Still River Editions invited me to participate in their ten year retrospective edition for artists (disclaimer: I am not an actual artist) who have previously had solo shows in their gallery. My image, "Field of Stars #2", will be included in the show that will have quite a long run from June 12 through December 17, 2021.

You can view the show online at https://stillrivereditions.com/ beginning on June 12. And if you happen to be in Danbury, CT, you can see the show in person at 128 East Liberty St on Monday through Friday from

8:30 am until 5 pm.

Hemlock Pool #9

I've been making a lot of ink transfers lately using overhead projection material from the 1990's and generic hand sanitizer. (Hey, the pandemic is hopefully winding down, so I have to do something with all the hand sanitizer that I hoarded). The inkjet coating on the old overhead projection material is quite brittle and when it comes in contact with the hand sanitizer it forms something resembling a rubber cement consistency. In order to coax, prod and persuade that messy mix onto the paper (I use Arches 88, an unsized paper), I have to cut away the strands of image on the edges (with an X-Acto knife) in order to get the image to release from the transfer material and onto the paper. This is what gives you those unpredictable, messy edges. This is also what gives you a completely unique, one of a kind print.

I've been into de-constructing my images recently and this process appeals to me. I love the unpredictability of making these and seeing how each one that I make is different. They remind me of Polaroid transfers, which I love, but I somehow never make enough of them. 

I still have about fifty sheets of the "expired" overhead film remaining, so I'm hoping to make several more of these images.

The Landlocked Forest #1

Holga

North Dam #1

Holga

Another version on Flickr shot with a Lina (Diana camera clone).
 

Lawrence Woods #4

Holga with soft surround filter

41 Clicks

Forty one clicks of a Holga shutter. (I counted).

 

Lower Pond #8

I'm thinking that this blog might be a good place for posting alternate versions of images that I have posted previously, either here or on Flickr. I posted another version of this on Flickr a few weeks ago. That image was also made with a Holga camera but in different weather conditions; a winter fog that the sun had almost completely burned off by the time I shot the image. 

I made this image a couple of weeks later on an early winter morning when the pond was almost entirely frozen over and the sun was reflecting off of the pond's frozen surface. It's shot almost exactly from the same vantage point (behind those branches) as the earlier version, so I never bothered to post it on Flickr. But instead of relegating it to my ever-growing folder of un-posted images, I think I'll just leave it here.

 

Lower Pond Runoff #2

Holga

Another version here 

A Bridge to Nowhere

In the local woods

Holga

Winter Woods #3

Somewhere in the Middlesex Fells Reservation.

Holga.

Goose Cove Reservoir #3

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA

Holga

 

Limb

Dogtown, Gloucester, MA 

Holga

Quarry Road #3

A long abandoned. small granite quarry in the Middlesex Fells Reservation.

Holga

Lake House

Sunpet 120 camera

 

Black Cow

Modified Agfa Isoflash Rapid C