Monthly Archives: May 2008

Making Daguerreotype, ambrotype, and tintype mats

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Jonathan

Andy Richmond over on the Wet Plate Collodion forum has posted an in-depth tutorial on the creation of replicated engraved mats and package preservers and followed it up with some great examples here. This is something that I’ve been meaning … Continue reading →

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Update on Amberlith/Rubylith

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Jonathan

Reader Brenton wrote in with this comment: Just a comment, Ruby Lithographic film works just fine for Becquerel, it can be obtained from any good printers as it is used in the production of the plates. Please see my new … Continue reading →

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Impossible Scents

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Jonathan

File this under the “Completely Unrelated” department but I find this kind of artwork simply fascinating. The artists have (no doubt) painstakingly recreated and/or invented scents of things as varied as ancient (Ptolemaic) Egyptian perfumes to the recent destruction of … Continue reading →

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