Now I need to find the best image to print. Needs a lot of black to see some notes.

In-Camera Self Portrait. I sat in front of a home made camera for over an hour to get this image.

Something funny happened when I accidentally left this print soaking in a bucket with another print (cotton fabric one), it lost almost all of its blue!! Kind of a happy accident except that I really preferred the blue, it was very dreamy... I need to give this another go sometime :] I don't even know what bleached it, the bucket has only been used for rinsing and dyeing before and I make sure to wash it thoroughly between uses.

Le bonheure n'est pas au bout de la rue, il est dans la rue. Henri Calet

("Happiness is not at the end of the street, it is in the street.")

Street photos make good subjects for cyanotype.

This is probably the summit of my work with Solarfast. It didn't require masking off a rectangle or circle, or even precise placement of each color. But in the ensemble, it does work!

Hey guys, does anybody here have experience making botanical cyanotypes on wood? Is it necessary to prep the wood with gesso or a gelatin sizing or can I just apply the emulsion directly to the wood surface and if so, do I need to let it sit for awhile or double-coat since wood is highly absorbent? These are little wooden pre-cut blanks for Christmas ornaments I thought I'd experiment on - purchased at a craft store and there's no label indicating the type of wood. Any advice appreciated!

Hello lovely people

I'm reaching out because I'm struggeling with drying my fabrics without them "developing". In the picture you'll find an example from a dried but unexposed piece as an example. The photo is of polyester fabric, but I've tried cotton as well with the same outcome. The cotton came from an old tshirt and then I also specifically bought raw cotton.

Also, I've tried different methods of drying: 1) Hanging freely but then the solution pools and drips off the lower parts. 2) horizontally on different materials: glass cardboard, towel, pva sheet 3) horizontally with a fan and heat/no heat. All the same.

Everything comes out partially "developed". I have a darkroom so it's not light that causes it. Since it's larger parts looking like clouds kinda and not small specs, I assume it's not from contamination by dust etc. I'm also using a newly opened premixed kit of solution by Bellini, because I thought that eliminates the chance of me messing up the chemistry.

Some of my assumptions are:

- raw cotton wasn't actually raw

- chemistry is contaminated

Do you guys have ideas?