It is now nearly 6 month since my last post, so much for new year resolutions! I had resolved to document my work too, another good intention down the drain but to be fair it has been a strange time and I don’t suppose I’m along in lacking motivation and discipline.
I have continued to experiment with cyanotypes, particularly the wet process, loving the randomness of the outcomes, never quite knowing what the result would be and I started really well, recording the exposure times, type of paper Io had used, any additives, etc. on the back of the print but that soon fell by the wayside and I now have a pile of prints and have to try to remember how I made them. Having spent the best part of 10 years working through OCA photography courses and wondering what the point was of keeping a blog and a sketchbook because they do the same thing don’t they? I now appreciate the difference.
So here we are 6 months on. I had intended this blog to be a fairly comprehensive record of my work as it was for my OCA courses but whilst I want to get to my current position, it would take to long to backtrack and put it all in. So, I will spend the next few posts sampling and recording highlights and take it from there. In the meantime to go back to January, this is a favourite clump of trees at the bottom of our lane, photographed in the snow in January, converted to a black and white negative and printed onto transparency film.
This is one where I did write the details on the back of the print, it makes such a difference!
Anne Bryson Photography 