Trees and Rocks

Finally got to do some more darkroom printing and did a few more 8x10s that I subsequently bleached and tanned for the bromoil process. Bromoil really is just such a blast once you get to the inking stage.

Here's a new one from an old neg. Printed on Kentmere Fineprint VC, bleach/tanned and inked.

Trees and Rocks

Shot along Rt. 49 in Northern California, between Auburn and Coloma. There's about a 100 mile stretch of this road that one could spend a lifetime shooting.

One of the things I've noticed about bromoil is that the subject in the shot should be darker than the background. Due to the nature of the process you're naturally adding ink to an almost blank print so lighter subjects don't really seem to be appropriate for the process. I'm sure that better bromoilists than I will disagree.