"Honoring Sky Woman" with my dear friend, liaison and collaborator for my series "Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective". 7x7" square glass black glass ambrotype in the historic wet plate collodion process.
http://dept.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12.html
http://www.native-languages.org/morelegends/sky-woman.htm
Anyone who creates in wet plate knows that clouds very rarely will appear in the process, but on this magical day, they made themselves known to both Margaret and I.
Carl Zeiss Tessar 250mm lens, f11, 2 seconds of exposure.
"Honoring Sky Woman" with Margaret Landin in the wet plate collodion processHonoring Sky Woman Black Glass Ambrotype
Nostalgic Glass Wet Plate Studio was founded on October 4th, 2012 by Shane Balkowitsch.