Miss Doing Wet Plate!!

I miss doing wet plate. These photos were shot at the cemetery dad is buried in and where I will be buried. The camera is a 24x24 inch Chamonix, that cost around $11000 CAD (with extras) second hand. The darkroom trailer (FREDDY) before additions was $7600 CAD the truck (THE.BEAST) with a couple of repairs around $9000-$10000 CAD.

Wet plate photography is very expensive but I love the creativity, history and most importantly the wonderful timeless beauty of the finished plates. Ambrotypes have a subtle power that I have not seen in any other art form.

I will continue the AMBROTOS KANATA wet plate projeect when I return to Canada Making Ambros till I die, is a good way to go out! Am 61 now, I hope I can continue working on the project, slowly but deliberately into my 80s.

Ocean Quadtych Ambrotypes, Idea

The view from a restaurant I was at here in Thailand. The tide movement changed the view/feel of things, quite quickly.

I could have set up a view camera on this spot and over 2-3 hours created a variety of photographs. It would be an interesting experiment. Do a Triptych or a fourtych (what are those called?, quadtych??), of images from the exact same camera position, as the oceans water progresses or recedes. Maybe can try that on my wet plate collodion project in Canada, AMBROTOS KANATA.

New ideas are always coming in, need to remember this one. OCEAN AMBROTYPE QUADTYCH!!

Tree in the ocean, Thailand, 2025

Manet Book of Inspiring Seascape Paintings

I never buy art books in Thailand but today I did! Only $11.48 CAD for a large, wonderful, well orinted book of seascaoes by Edouard Manet and other artists.

I am hoping this work will be an inspiration for some large seascape ambrotypes I am planning for th AMBROTOS KANATA wetplate photography project.