an 8×8 inch tintype

5×7 ambrotype

This is a 6×6 tintype. I love my wire woman and her bird’s nest heart, but I could really use an old canvas dressmaker’s dummy if anyone out there wants to lend, give, or trade me one for a plate or two . . .

Four years ago, in February of 2008 I began the Daily Print project. It was exactly what it sounds like: a print every day, sent to a list of wonderful recipients. What a great ride it’s been, and today marks the end.

My gratitude to you all — it has been so much fun! Now I look forward to new photographic adventures. I won’t be Daily anymore, but I won’t be gone, either.

Many, many thanks to you all!

I think this will be a wonderful exhibition, and I certainly feel humbled to be hanging alongside so many great printmakers. I’ll be showing four prints: one bromoil, one gum bichromate print, and two liquid silver emulsion prints.

the opening is Friday, Sept 16th, from 5-7. I really hope to see folks there — some of these prints are so big I’ve never shown them on the web and I always love to hear what people think of them.

from the program. If you can’t squint hard enough to read it, it says:

“In Things of This World, Jeanne Wells of Maine, USA brings her love of the unpredictable and evocative wetplate collodion process together with her love of the ordinary everyday things of this world — both the world of humans and the world of nature – to see what this union of ordinary and extraordinary might produce. Hers is a small view, and intimate. the series of ambrotypes which make up Things of This World are also small, tiny paens to the ordinary beauties of everyday life.”

More information about the festival here.

This was great fun — I shot it with a homemade lens onto an 8×10 paper negative.” What if?” is still one of my greatest friends.