Foggy Morning Pines (24 x 36 inch hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on paper)

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Foggy Morning Pines (24 x 36 inch hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on paper)

At 3 feet tall, this is the largest of all my original hand-printed photographs using the antique process from the 19th century on heavy cotton watercolor paper. The original image is of the woods where I live in the Oakland hills in the San Francisco Bay Area. These iconic Monterey Pines are in the woods near my house in northern California where I walk.

All of my hand-printed cyanotype photographs are “contact photos”, which means that the large negative is exactly the same size as the paper that the photo is printed on because the negative is laid directly on top of the paper while it is being exposed. It is cumbersome working with a breakable 36-inch sheet of glass at this scale.

The paper is a heavy 100% cotton hot press watercolor paper. Slight variations of shades of blue exist from edition to edition as each print was hand-painted with photo chemicals in the dark and printed in natural sunlight with variations in the weather and intensity of light causing some prints to be darker than others.

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