Quote: Carl Sagon (Astronomer, Scientist)

 

Good Art!

I have found I like to feel the image more now. What feels best is the right choice. So I try over and under exposure, I try different formats, sequences of pics, different compositions different lens. When you think about it, good art has no rules. It is best to just feel yourself through it. Follow your creative and artistic heart. 

This last week I used my 11x14, 14x14 Chamonix for the first time. I struggled to find compositions I liked when I used a lens with full coverage (450mm), so I went with wider lens that did not cover the whole plate. Those images just felt better to me. I am thinking of doing that more and more with exposure and tonality now. Letting AMBROTOS KANATA be a very personally felt thing. Follow my heart and not be to rigid in technical perfection. More Sally Mann and less Ansel Adams so to speak!

Overexposed, but you get the idea.

Sunday in my Cemetary!

 Forgot my food and my water but am having fun making ambrotypes anyway. Yesterday was world wet plate day!!! I am always a bit off with organized events, tests and teaching methods. Always been a bit of a lone wolf. Oh well, made Ambros the day before and the day after the rest of the world.

Collodion a bit funky, over exposed first plate but we are on our way. Am in the cemetery I will EVENTUALLY be buried in. This monument is maybe 150 meters from my grave. I can see dads graf3, next to ours, from the tripod position.

Monument Link, from Evergreen Cemetary.

https://www.davidmurrayarchitect.ca/cemetery-monument/

BEAST table in action

See link for Monument

The lovely BEAST and FREDDY the darkroom trailer!

Reward Day

Having a reward day today. Trying to make 14x14 inch ambrotypes at an Edmonton cemetery. Late start so pushing it a bit. Will go out Sunday as well. Love the new BEAST truck.

Lots of firsts today.

- First time using the 14x14 Chamonix camera

- First time using the 14x14 wet plate holder

- First time using the 16x20 fixer tank.

-First time u am using my cheap Russian 210mm lens.

- Second time using the BEAST to transport the darkroom trailer.

Ambrotypes Ahead!

 

Postponed Again!

 

Stories

Living a life of stories is underrated! Make sure you have yours before you go!!!

Take Another Shot

 

Quote: Salman Rushdie

 

Tack Boxes for AMBROTOS KANATA

Picked up two large, used, horse tack boxes. 36 inches long, 24 inches, 25 inches tall. 3/4 inch plywood with metal supports all round. Each box is 70 lbs and super solid. Cost was $60 CAD for 2. 

I plan to paint them black then place 1 on the flatbed of the beast and 1 in the trailer. The trailer box will be used to safely house my 24x24 inch silver tank. The idea being I will be able to safely travel with the acrylic leak proof tank, secure, inside box WITHOUT removing the silver nitrate.  This would only be done in shooting situations where I need a quick departure.  The silver and the tank should be well protected, inside this wooden safe.

Quote: Oscar Wilde

 

Return To Street Dog Series?

 

New website photo.

www.gerryyaum.net 

In 2018 I started to do a series on street dogs in Thai. It never went anywhere, maybe I can go back and start to work more on it again. Also did some donation stuff, vaccines, food, at a shelter (with the help of others!). Never been much of a dog guy but the more time I spent with them the more I liked dogs!

 

Street Dog, Thailand, 2019

Donation work with dog shelter, 2019

New Larger Truck Magnet

The new larger truck magnets for the ambrotype project, look nice. Also got a stamp. 

I will place the magnets on the BEAST 1 ton or Fanny the motorhome. Hope it gives me a more official look when dealing with security, police and the general public.

Link: Back Work Editing Photos

Back at work, back adding photos to the website.

www.gerryyaum.net

 

The heat of the dump, melts you, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand 2019

Dad watching me photograph him, MY FATHERS LAST DAYS, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2014

Dom 58, Lost in thought, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, 2019

Ladyboy living in a train car, shows me her fish. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, 2022

Jack sleeping after doing ICE. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, 2018

Self portrait under the freeway, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, 2022

Panom 30, Near his home under the freeway, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, 2022

Mr. Win working the garbage, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2018

2 men in their dump home, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand 2018

Small baby waiting for mother to finish working the garbage, THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, Mae Sot, Thailand, 2018

Next Week Off

Will Shoot 11x14 and maybe 14x14 Ambrotypes next week off work! Having THE BEAST this year to pull the trailer, should allow me to make many more images.

Flatbed, 2 Functions

The flatbed is a multipurpose device. I will shoot from on top but today it is a table.

Video: First Ambrotype Shoot of the Year

Got an image on my first try this season using last years collodion mix. 45 seconds f64, 120mm lens on my 8x10 Deardorff. A promising stat to the season!

“Ain't Photography Grand!!!”