La Plume - photogravure print - LXIII Birthday Edition

La Plume - photogravure print - LXIII Birthday EditionOn the day I made this photograph I was out in a favorite location with a generous model and I was exploring. I had picked up this feather on a previous visit and saved it for a time just like this. The setting, mood, model and light all added up to this picture and I felt good. This hand pulled photogravure print is made with Charbonnel 55981 Black, and Bistre inks on Hahnemhle copperplate paper. I printed an edition of 63 numbered prints. Hand

I am at home itching to make a new photograph so I tore open a paper shopping bag a tossed the tulips down on the bag

exploring myself

ever since I first came across the location

5 x9 inches on an 15 x 20 sheet

After all the years of platinum printing it brings me joy to hand print these negatives in polymer gravure with all the feelings that go along with making marks on paper with my hands

I dig the bare trees and the way the sky looks in the winter

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris

Small views

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and Red ochre inks on Hahnemühle copperplate paper

This hand-pulled polymer photogravure print with chine collé by Ray Bidegain is in an edition of 10 numbered prints and 3 A/P prints

The Forth rail bridge crosses the Firth of Forth from the East of Scotland near Edinburgh