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!