I am always experimenting with photography processes. I have done cyanotypes, Van Dyke Brown, Infrared, Polaroid Image Transfers, and processed film using different developers and techniques.

This image is a print using the Van Dkye Brown process. High-quality watercolor paper is coated with the light-sensitive chemicals and allowed to dry in a darkroom. Safe lights are okay. When the paper is dry, you select the negative you want to print and place it on top of the coated paper in a special frame that holds everything tight under glass. You have to use a large-format negative. I used a 4X5 negative of the Big Cut in Northern Arizona on the road to Page. The frame is then taken outside and exposed to sunlight. It is then processed in running water and then treated with hypo to set the image. It is then washed to remove the hypo.

I have photographed this barn twice; once on a family vacation to Morro Bay and Hearst’s Castle, the second time on a road trip with my roommates, Greg Nelson and Ken Jones. 

Same process with an image made in Antelope Canyon.