Its 530am now and I had a nice productive night in the darkroom printing for the "Body Sellers" PhotoNOLA photo festival show. I ended up working on and getting decent prints of 3 negs tonight, 1 man (Da), 1 woman (Bla) and 1 ladyboy(Nat) image. Some days things flow well in the darkroom some days not, today I felt rest, focused and disciplined, a good combination for a positive darkroom session.
Well now that I have done this blog, I can go make my sandwich and pick up my book. I am reading 3 books right now, one on a persecuted Karen family in Burma/Thailand, One on a English girl who spent time in a notorious Thai prison for drug smuggling and the third is the book mentioned earlier on the Rwandan genocide.
I will have a sandwich do a bit of reading and then off to bed, I need to get up early to go mat board shopping. I was originally going to mount directly on aluminum but that proved difficult for a variety of reasons. I think I can mount onto a material that is mat board aluminum like called Dibond, this stuff was used for a great look by my friend Larry in a recent show he had and it was also used by one photographer at the Alberta Open Photo show I saw earlier this week. The material has a black core and a thin aluminum surface on the front and back, it is very light weight. I am not sure how the material is cut but hopefully I can do it with my mat cutter. I will go to the art supply store tomorrow when I get up to look for this item. Here is a link and product description:
Dibond® is the industry's leading aluminum composite material (ACM) for more than 15 years. It is comprised of two pre-painted sheets of .012" aluminum with a solid polyethylene core. Made In USA.
Well now that I have done this blog, I can go make my sandwich and pick up my book. I am reading 3 books right now, one on a persecuted Karen family in Burma/Thailand, One on a English girl who spent time in a notorious Thai prison for drug smuggling and the third is the book mentioned earlier on the Rwandan genocide.
