Yesterday, Today and Tonight

I am almost too tired from a walk back from Chinatown (Boston) the long way to add much in the way of words to the pictures below. The sad truth is that I had a camera and I didn't photograph the four artists (Darien, Drew, Mari, and myself) eating at the Gourmet Dumpling House. Yes, we had soup dumplings.
I did make two exposures in Boston Commons and the public garden which were part of our route home but first, some evidence of my being a baseball fanboy.

Yesterday, Green Monster, Fenway Park

Today, rain on window

Tonight, solarized negative inverted, Boston Commons

a predilection for windows

Here’s the view of my studio windows which are going to make the lengthy anthotype exposures possible. I spent most of the afternoon mashing and filtering the mulberries which, on the surface, seems like it should have been straight forward and quick.

It wasn’t. The tea strainer I have been using is too coarse. Fortunately Megumi Naitoh lent me one of Emmanuel College’s ceramic studio mesh filters that allowed me to get most of the fibrous matter out of the mulberry juice. It still took a while. For all of today’s time in the studio I have about 135 mL of mulberry juice to show for it.

Tommorow I’ll take some digital pictures of the anthotype mayhem.

Poor Pods, Black Frame, Instant Gratification

Ryan Adrick photographed by Francis Schanberger

I have succumbed to the lure of the Impossible Project. Last week I received an email about problematic Silver Shade 600 film being sold in packs of six. I've been fighting off the urge to use their film due to the expense but there was no way for me to resist. Six boxes of 8 sheet instant film for 36.60 plus shipping. Le't say it was about $45 in total for about 48 sheets. The less than a dollar a sheet threshold had been crossed.

At College Park Center, Studio 238, home to the University of Dayton's Photography and Visual Communication Design facilities, I met up with Ryan Adrick and Christine Zuercher for some instant gratification. Here are the first three sheets from the black frame poor pod lot. All developed perfectly protected from light in an empty 4x5 sheet film box.

Studio 238 R by Christine Zuercher

Untitled (CPC Visual Arts Facility) by Ryan Adrick