Union Station #1, Los Angeles Fiber base, Silver Gelatin Print. This is my favorite type of black and white print. Well made prints have a very special look: beautiful crisp highlights and deep evocative shadows. I have printed on a number of different papers over the past thirty plus years, many of the papers I used to use are no longer available. Now I use Ilford and Fortezo papers, I hope they don’t discontinue these papers! Prints made on these papers, when properly handled, will last around one hundred years. Photographers know this because we have very old prints to gauge the print durability. Either contact prints, negative in contact with the paper, or enlargements, prints bigger than the negative can be made with this paper. There are also silver gelatin prints made on a plastic base called rc prints. These prints lack some of the special qualities of fiber prints and they do not last as long. I do not print on rc papers. Legs of Nude Cyanotype Prints. This is a process developed by Sir John Herschel in 1842, this is the longest continuously used process in photography. This is an iron-based process in which I hand coat the emulsion onto fine art paper. This is a truly handmade print! These prints will last over on hundred years; I have some from a show in 1900. These prints generally begin as bright blue, because they retain some chemical activity they will change over time, but they will still be blue. This material is too slow to work with any enlarger; so all the cyanotypes on my site are contact prints. An 8X10 cyanotype was made with an 8X10 camera. I really like these prints, even though they are quite time consuming to do. Verb Giclee Prints. This term covers a lot of ground, but it means a print made with an ink jet printer made from a digital file. I like these better than any previous color print. I have much more control over the final print than I did with color prints. The current generation of printers that I use now have tremendous print stability. These prints are supposed to last over one hundred years. Of course we do not have any actual samples that are that old. In order for the prints to last special papers need to be used, and I have to carefully handle the prints. It is worth it to get such wonderful color prints. I also make black and white prints with these printers. Often black and white giclee prints allow me to print negatives that I could not print with an enlarger. Often I offer a giclee print as a lower cost option than a fiber base silver gelatin print, because they are quicker to make. Mounting and Matting All prints I make are mounted and have a window mat. Both mats, the support and window, are unbuffered rag board. This is the most stable material for mounting photographs. Fiber base silver gelatin prints are dry mounted, while other print types are mounted with photo corners. I do not offer unmounted images at this time. I offer custom framing for my images. If you would like to discuss framing one of my images please call me at (800)701-3686.