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Year: 2021

  • Floral Arrangement Workshop

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    Floral Arrangement Workshop

    As Iā€™ve been doing some work with flowers, when the opportunity to participate in a flower arrangement workshop came up, I grabbed it. The workshop was quite practical in nature, focusing on the actual ā€œconstructionā€ process of a bouquet: start from the bottom and build up. Searching around I found a paper that offered some…

  • Dried Flowers #2

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    Dried Flowers #2

  • Dried Flowers

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    Dried Flowers

    I have been doing some work with dried flowers since August (which I alluded to in an earlier post), after receiving a gift of some from my cousin. Thereā€™s a theme for me in dried flowers, but I just havenā€™t been able to put my finger on it. I am now on a second iteration…

  • Embracing Grain

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    Embracing Grain

    In my previous post, I talked about using coffee and peppermint as developing agents. Those samples I presented in that post were shot with my large format camera. My decision to return to using film several years ago was driven by the desire to both get the image feel that only a larger framed camera…

  • Dried Flowers developed in Peppermint Tea and Caffenol

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    Dried Flowers developed in Peppermint Tea and Caffenol

    Prompted to look into “distressing” negatives, I took a step back in the process and decided to look at other development methods. Inspired by @kavehpartoviā€™s work with caffenol, I have explored other developing agents. Here I contrast [instant] Coffee and Peppermint. I scanned the black and white negatives as colour film to capture any tone…