The Road Ahead (12 x16 " FRAMED. Image itself: 9 x 12 " hand-printed cyanotype photograph)Image itself:

(9 x 12" Hand-Printed Cyanotype)

This is a handmade contact photo, which means that the negative was the same size as the eventual photograph and was laid directly on top of the hand-stained paper in order to make the print. The blue and white cyanotype process was developed in the mid-1800s and is an alternative photographic process to the usual black-and-white process.

The tree is an oak. The road is Skyline Blvd in Oakland where I live. I captured the moment when the sun begins to burn through the winter morning fog in the hills of Oakland, California, across the bay from San Francisco, which has its own reputation for fog.

There are slight variations in how the photo chemicals were brushed onto the page from print to print but all are from the same negative.

Unframed. Printed on 100% acid free watercolor paper.