Blog | alchemyoflight

Oct 20
1 min

Pictorialism. Print #3

This will be my last pictorial print for a while, there are other processes and styles I need to explore. The last one was of the beautif...

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Alan

Oct 20
1 min

Pictorialism is in my head still

Following on from one of my previous posts, while I have been prevaricating and delaying getting back to working with tri-colour gum prin...

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Alan

Oct 1
1 min

Happy to announce....

I am delighted to be able to announce that my work is also now being represented by Gallery5x7. This is a website based in America which ...

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Alan

Oct 1
1 min

Pictorialism in Photography

Evening. I have been interested for a few months now in the work of the early pictorialist photographers, particularly a Belgian by the n...

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Alan

Jul 14
1 min

Woohoo...

And finally I heard today that my new order of Frames and mounts is ready to collect. I am hopeful that these will be of a higher quality...

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Alan

Jul 14
1 min

Sunrise over Venezia Take 2

OK. After the previous scare with my first attempt, I decided to go back and print another Gum using the same negatives, but try to get t...

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Sunrise over Venezia, and how I nearly ruined it!

Alan

Jul 14
1 min

Sunrise over Venezia, and how I nearly ruined it!

This is a Gum Print of an image I took at Sunrise in Venice a few years ago. Don't feel sorry for me, we went in December so the sun didn...

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Alan

Jul 14
1 min

Got The Blues

The second process was Cyanotypes. I have done these before of course, but i had a day printing and trying different toning techniques, w...

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Alan

Jul 14
1 min

Breaking the Lockdown Routine

Humdrum days indeed, and very strange times. Lockdown has caused problems and issues for all of us, and whilst I have been able to carry ...

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Alan

May 31
1 min

Last one for now!

This one is much nearer to home, the second from a series of photos I took locally, a few weeks before lockdown. I like the 'Old Master' ...

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Alan

May 31
1 min

Third of Four

This one I have wanted to print for a while, as it was taken in Korcula, Croatia a couple of years ago. I had a pigment called Opera Rose...

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Alan

May 31
1 min

Second One, another variation.

This gum print I set out with the intention of making it like a hand toned old tintype print, and I think I got there. I used four negati...

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Alan

May 31
1 min

I have been batch printing!

A couple of weeks ago I amended my process with a couple of things, in the hope of 'improving' the prints I produce. How I measure 'impro...

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Alan

May 7
1 min

Sample Photobook Page

Hi again. Following on from the photobook review, here is a photo of one of the pages of the book. The image is of inside St Peters Basil...

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Alan

May 7
3 min

Phonebook Review...Saal Digital

OK. Disclaimer first, Saal Digital are makers and printers of quality photobooks, posters, cards, calendars etc. I first came across them...

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Alan

May 7
1 min

Image #3 Leigh Court Barn

This is a view of part of the exterior of the barn. It reminds me so much of American plains, straight roads and miles of nothingness. Th...

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Alan

May 7
1 min

Image #2 Leigh Court Barn

This one is another single negative gum print, made of 4 layers. In one corner is this old grindstone/milling wheel. The building dates b...

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Alan

May 7
1 min

Lockdown (In)Activity!

Strange times, 6 weeks plus into this weird lockdown. I was hoping that this would trigger me into an amazing spell of creative experimen...

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Alan

Mar 15
1 min

Black is Black!

This new piece was intended more as an experiment. Although a lot of my work is monochrome I don't often get deep blacks, so I decided to...

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Alan

Mar 9
1 min

Back with the colours!

While I have been experimenting with a couple of different ideas....some worked, some....er.....didnt!...I have still had one or two prin...

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