Some Of Last Weeks Completed 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotypes

 

Shot in 2 locations last week. Forest scenes near the campground and an old Anglican church in Calgary. Here are some of those ambrotypes.

St. Paul”s Anglican Church, 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotype, AMBROTOS KANATA, Calgary, Alberta July 31/2022

St. Paul”s Anglican Church, 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotype, AMBROTOS KANATA, Calgary, Alberta July 31/2022

Forest near Jasper, 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotypess, AMBROTOS KANATA, Jasper, Alberta July 29/2022

St. Paul”s Anglican Church, 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotype, AMBROTOS KANATA, Calgary, Alberta July 31/2022

Cannot Keep Ahead Of The Mess!

Wet pate a messy process! Seems I clean often but can never stay ahead!!

I run in fear from the messy, mess of making ambrotypes!

Completed Fallen Tree Jasper Campground 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotype

From this morning, before I went to bed. What the completed photo looked like, shot/processed in near 36C weather.

Fallen Tree Jasper Campground 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotype

St. Paul's Church Ambros

Early in the day St. Paul's 8x10 Clear Glass Ambrotypes. Later when the heat started up (35.5C) everything sort of fell apart. The heat melted me and the collodion!

St. Paul's Anglican Church In Calgary, Alberta

July 31, 2022 subject for AMBROTOS KANTA, St. Paul's Anglican Historic Church in Calgary. The church was build in 1885 before the city of Calgary existed.

St. Paul's In Calgary

Mark Of The Dragon In Silver Nitrate!

Keep getting silver nitrate on myself, even thou I try not to. Got it on my chin later on in the week but here at the beginning managed to get a dragon/bunny shaped splash on my left hand even thou I was wearing nitrile gloves.

Triptych Attempt

Will try an 8x10 clear Glass triptych (3 photos side by side telling a combined story) of this scene tomorrow. My fist ever. If this works later will move up to larger cameras it might be boiling hot in the trailer tomorrow which screws with wet plate.

3 minutes, G Collodion,

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Trees, 8x10 Clear Glass, Wabasso Campground,

2x12x20 Ambros

2x12 ambrotypes times 2!! These ambros were shot back in June I think. Trees near a campground in Lake Louse, Alberta.

12x20 Ambrotype on a 16x20 piece of black painted glass

Bought Me A "Lifesmart EZcool SIngle Port Indoor/Outdoor Portable Air Cooler"

I will update last weeks AMBROTOS KANATA work soon. I really struggled in the heat Morning time I made good ambros 2 times. Later in the afternoon and evening when the temp shored to 35.5C in the trailer things fell apart, lots of problems.

I need to figure away to to lower the temp inside the trailer. I thought I could go with a portable a/c camping style machine, that would require electricity or a generator to run. The combination of the a/c machine and generator would run upwards of $1500 CAD. I decided to take a chance on a smaller water fed unit that had decent online reviews. It might be able to drop the trailer temp by 10C (hope hope!).

The unit is called a "Lifesmart EZcool Single Port Indoor/Outdoor Portable Air Cooler". Hoping this thing works for me, it requires very little power (same as a 40w light bulb) and costs only $158 CAD. Will see how it works, if it does not work not work in the trailer, will try it in Fanny the RV.

If it works, the low cost and low power usage should be perfect for Freddy the darkroom trailer.

Note* In the future on hot days,  I will also be using small coolers with ice to store both the developer and the collodion. Last week my collodion seemed to melt in the heat, was very fragile and left all kinds of marks on the plates.

Lifesmart EZcool Single Port Indoor/Outdoor Portable Air Cooler