Emma Daniels' Post #1

Over the summer I researched how to print images on nature. By that I mean, printing images in the darkroom from film negatives onto surfaces such as leaves, rocks, and wood. I was successful with wood using liquid light, semi successful with rocks using cyanotype. Leaves were unsuccessful.

Here are examples:

These past two weeks I have been setting up a darkroom space, collecting nature such as different types of leaves, flat rocks, and wood. I plan to find a way to pain the rocks a lighter color so that when I print the photograph, highlights can be seen.

I've also been trying out a new process for putting an image on a leaf. The chlorophyll process, which uses photosynthesis to leave an image. I used a very light in color leaf which was a fail on my part. My next step is to find darker leaves.

 Here are my results: