Yesterday was World Wet Plate Day. I spent about 2 hours in my dark rainy garden trying to get a great plate to submit to the event. My husband laughs at me because my type A personality totally comes out in situations like this….anyway. I did manage to get 6 plates poured…that in Wet Plate does not mean I walked away with 6. The final count was 3 and one was a bit of an Ooops.
I liken the experience to a “Fish Tale”. I had the first two beautiful plates float away in the fix bath, BUT I was smart enough to get a digital snap of it…since there was no one there to witness the event.
After using black glass for the first 2 pours and having lost those images I switched to black aluminum. I had no issues with the glass inside the silver bath as they are heavy but apparently the metal floated on me and the silver coating stopped an inch from the top. I exposed it anyway and it turned out to be one of my favorites.
Two hours into it, I was finally getting into the rhythm of working inside the dark box….even with the low light I was still able to see properly to develop the plates, when the skies opened up and chased me speedily for cover. That is after I raced the camera indoors.
I just submitted my contribution to the event…too bad you can call a rain date.
Here is “The One That Got Away”
by lthek
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