gum Bichromate

Line and curve, tone and value were the things I decided to play with in my post today. Distilling an image down to form and shape within the frame became my playground. Along the path of creation of this picture I took a fork in the road, or it might be more correct to say a “U turn”…. back to the colors and feeling of many years ago when I worked with non silver images. Reminiscent of Gun Bichromate, Cyanotype and other such processes, my mind was flooded with the history of different types of photographic processes. In contrast to working with chemicals to create images in the old way, I have to admit working in the digital darkroom has proven to not only be faster and much less of a mess. I enjoy that a quick glance at this image it might appear to be the head of a bird, but with closer inspection reveals a flower. My initial feeling as to cropping was to delete the flower stem, but I liked the balance it created in the image and decided to not crop tight and leave the stem in frame.