RSS“Leaning Palms” was a challenge to print. I began by processing in vinegar for 2 minutes. This bath was followed by bleaching in a dilute bath of sodium carbonate. The print was toned in tea, followed by another bath in sodium carbonate. After the carbonate, the print went back in the tea, then into the gold-borax bath for brief toning. I ended up with kind of a gold-green-gray-blue split tone.
Leaning Palms, Death Valley. Pinhole photo, cyanotype print on cotton sateen, developed in vinegar, toned in tea and gold. 107 second exposure.
Print #2 was toned in gold and palladium…
