Rock at Bean Hollow (2017)
(specifically, Pebble Beach at Bean Hollow State Beach)
Pescadero, California
Taken with a Bronica S2 on Fuji Acros film near lovely Pescadero. If you visit San Francisco, I recommend taking a little road trip along the coastal highway (Highway One) south to Pescadero, or a little further to Santa Cruz. A lot of the area is sparsely populated and is quite charming, with several beaches to explore.
I submitted this print for consideration for a gallery exhibit in Portland, Oregon, to be held in that city's Blue Moon Camera and Machine, a great camera store in the city's northwest quadrant. Maybe some of you know it.
They accepted it for the exhibit, and that was the impetus for my road trip between San Francisco and Portland that September. All of the images I've posted here of Oregon and far northern California are from that trip.
I believe that exhibit was arranged by the Film Shooters Collective, which I was a part of back then.
Taken with a Bronica S2 camera and Fuji Acros film, printed using Moersch Easylith chemicals. I believe I used old Foma paper for the darkroom print, but I don't remember the specifics.
I only printed perhaps half a dozen (or fewer) images using the Lith process; this was the most successful one. I've always intended to do more. I love the way Lith prints look. So much texture.
Late last year I did a class in Oakland with Beatrice Thornton on how to develop film using plant-based developer that you can make (I did tea leaves, spices, herbs, twigs)
I've always liked the tonality of the rocks in this image. Acros does such a wonderful job in that regard. You can also clearly see each row of waves as they approach the shore in all of their frothy inevitability. I can almost hear them.
6 months ago I decided I wanted to spend time and energy learning how to do RA-4 prints in a darkroom. I happen to live a mile from a darkroom with a very well-equipped and affordable color darkroom. I figure it was just another nerdy thing for me to really get into.
It gives me regularly scheduled structured time completely in the dark, away from computers (where I make a living). It lets me obsess over details
Today feels like this image looks. Taken during a hike in Drake’s Estero, just north of San Francisco on a winter day in 2015. Cool, wet, quiet, very still.
RA-4 contact prints! All the noodle stall people in these prints are my distant relations, so I plan to send some of my experiments in color darkroom prints of them and send them to my parents to give to them