Wet Plate 4x5

I had the privilege of having an introduction to wet plate collodion process with Priscilla Ferguson. This was probably around 2008/2009, a process I had hope to revisit and do more of but I never really got to jump on to. The world through it somehow seemed more real because of this fantastic nostalgia for something you've never experienced in the first place. I suppose it's a high appreciation for one of the first process in photography. Going through the process builds patience with any other photographic approach, studio, street/ straight or otherwise, nothing really seems more time consuming than a wet plate process, that I know of anyway.

4x5 Glass Plate

Self Portrait as an indigenous person with heart & air in the state of Anubis

My ISUZU used to hydroplane often and one day I was at a red light about to get onto the highway on Sunrise and I-75 and it just would not break driving me straight into a palm tree. I was not injured but my SUV got totaled. I got side tracked with not having a car and needing to do research on which cars have more safety features and what not and before I knew it months passed by. I never got back to it; I also made it more difficult on myself by pursing nude subjects which was very hard to come by with the added distance of Priscilla house being down Southwest Miami on Eureka Dr which was a long drive from Pembroke Pines where I lived at the time.

Totaled ISUZU. Medium Format

The damange I made to the tree. 4x5 format photos