Beautiful Decay Feature

“I love the idea of using a process steeped in history and with the ghosts of photographers who have come before me. It is a process that is wholly addicting.”

The Beautiful Decay Article

RECLAMARE Show 04 / 13 – 05 / 28 2013

this space may be Sacramento’s next great spot for medium- to low-brow masterpieces

New Plate from the Number 5 Darkroom

We have just completed construction on our new darkroom and did this test plate. We also tested our new CC Harrison Lens

11″x14″ Ambrotype Test

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Wet Plate Collodion Negitive Workshop with Quinn Jacobson

“The group I had here was incredible.” Quinn Jacobson – Studio Q

Plate #59 | Hypnosis series

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Plate #56 | Hide Under the Shadow of your Wings

under the shadow neither man nor of God.

World Wet Plate Day 2011

We participated in World Wet Plate Day again this year. We worked with model and ballet dancer Nicole Bell. We battled the wind and contamination problems early on but we did produce 3 images for the day.

Birds as Idea

I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;