River of Dreams

Cyanotype contact printed from a 4x5 negative, partially bleached with a sodium bicarbonate solution (girl, rocks) and then toned in hot chinese green tea for about an hour. The negative was very dense and the sun was gradually hidden by clouds, resulting in an exposure of about five hours for this print. What you see on screen is probably a bit larger than the actual print.The dense negative was the result of a shutter misfire (it was sticky for some reason, perhaps the extreme heat), so the exposure was probably over one second instead of the intended 1/2 second @ f/22. I've got some other negatives of the same scene with a normal exposure that will be better suited for silver gelatin printing when I find the time to do it.(Uploaded June 24, 2005).