After beating my head to design a proper Poster to market the collection an amazing college friend from Ringling stepped in and created this incredible marketing package for me. Curry Mendes’ skills are endless and to him I am ever grateful.

You can catch “Eine Amerikanische Perspektive” at the Ladenburg Rathaus from
15 October thru 29 November 2010.

Today I finished one part of the presentation, a new book.

Ladenburg An American Perspective

I hope you will stop by and check it out!

It is really cool to get any recognition for all my hard work with Photography but it is EVEN COOLER when it comes from my peers.  Yesterday I received notice that I had been chosen as “Member of the Week” on JPG Magazine.   Thank you everyone and especially to Vidu Chandan who nominated me.

Found the magazine and thought I would share it with you.

Click this link and it will take you to my gallery. There is also a slideshow button at the bottom right corner of the page. Worth clicking as it is a nice way to enjoy the collection.

Wish me luck!

While I stood there a local vineyard worker saw my expression and started a conversation with me about the work. He told me that they are building a tunnel that will go under the vineyard and the houses on the hill. That it is very important as the old medieval road currently used is very dangerous and far too heavy with traffic. This would be a very good thing for the villagers as well as commuters.

Each time we find ourselves in the area, Clover and I join the line of elderly men and children, and stop to watch the work develop. Just recently they have finished the road up to the mountain and we are minutes away from the tunneling to begin. While we stood watching, taking some videos and photos, a man tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Your taking historic photos”…I smiled and agreed.

It was a fantastic learning experience for me and I now know for me to continue working with this process I definitely need a dark box or mobile darkroom.  It also showed me in greater detail the limitations this process creates…I have started my list of accessible locations and also my mind is spinning as to how to make getting the dark box to certain locations possible.  Very exciting.

Seeing these beautiful ruins captured in this Historic Technique was breathtaking.  These images Quinn captured on this day will be exhibited in London at the Frederick Scott Archer Ceremony

Please take a moment to view the small slideshow of images from the day and also take some time to look through Quinn’s amazing site and his many on going projects.

He started searching out where he could learn this type of photography and amazingly he found a Master of this craft living no less then 6 miles from our house here in Germany and to make it more interesting, he too was a temporarily transplanted American.

For the past 3 days my husband was given the opportunity to study one on one with this amazingly talented man who has been attributed with bringing back to Europe the lost art of Collodion Photography, Quinn Jacobson of Studio Q Photography.   His work is inspirational in so many ways.

I popped in for a few hours to do a sitting for my husband and also to document some of his progression.   Make sure to take a look at a few of these informative and inspiring links and view the slideshow I created of the many steps and alchemy of this ancient process.  In the next few blogs i hope to get my hubby to take you on a tour of each step using the photos so keep a look out for those blogs.

Quinn Jacobson Master of the Collodion Process
Collodion Wet Plate Process

Great light to you during this busy holiday season!

I have written to you a few times now about my husband’s interest in film photography and how he is inspiring me to join him on journey into medium and large format film photography.

Being a complete “Left Brainer” my husband really enjoys the chemistry behind film photography. Each evening, when he comes in from work, he changes his clothes and checks to see what film needs to be developed and he loads up more 4×5 plates for the next adventure.  He says it is a real stress burner for him.

What use to be known as our bathroom has now acquired the new title of “the Magic Room” as it has been transformed into his laboratory/Darkroom.

After much research he purchased an amazing bit of kit to add to our home studio, the Harrison Pup Film Changing Tent. As you can see in the slideshow, our Wheaten Terrier Clover, enjoys helping load film. The addition of this little tent has freed up a lot of time and made changing and loading film while traveling possible. We can even pop up the pup tent in the car or in the field if necessary. We can’t say enough about this great product.  Aftrer viewing the slideshow someone pointed out how a “Pup” tent is very appropraite for us.

If you are interested in seeing some of our combined film work, we have recently released a calendar for 2010. You can view and purchase this calendar at this link: SharedPassion

Here is a collection of images taken in the famous Partnachklamm gorge.  I hope you enjoy images and it’s release is in plenty of time for this up and coming holiday season.   Please stop by and let us know what you think of the latest calendars.

Thanks!

2010 Calendar Partnachklamm at Red Bubble