Sun and Silver Photo Vintage Portrait and Wedding Photography
Victorian Techniques to Create Modern Tintypes and and Silver Collodion Prints
Award winning photographer based in Neenah Wisconsin
We are keeping the original photography techniques alive. We make hand made portraits using silver and glass, wood and metal, and add in a dash of natural sunlight. Our mobile darkroom allows us to travel around Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.
The first step is to Contact me to get more information and start working together on your portrait session!
Sun and Silver.photo had a booth at the 65th Annual Art at The Park, in Appleton (July 26-27). We were judged “Best of Photography” at the show! This was such an unexpected honor and we are so thankful to the Trout Museum of Art for recognizing our work and craft!
The Maker’s Market popup in Manitowoc is finished and we had a wonderful time. Visit again for news on more popups to come this Summer! You can also fill out my Contact Form to get on my mailing list for future events.
New in 2025 – Wedding Tintype Portraits! Create an heirloom handmade photograph on your special day – see more at Weddings
Check out my Portfolio to see some of my favorite images
Learn more about the Wet Plate Collodion Process, Salt Printing, and the Cyanotype Process
I also produce a limited number of fine art photographs and handcrafted prints and offer them for sale at Sunandsilver.art
Here are some recent portraits – click on picture to view full size
Tintype Adventures – Recent Blog Posts
- Nice Day for a White Wedding
It’s a nice day for a white wedding – or so Billy says! Our white wedding photo was taken at Pleasant View Studios on a September day. Over 40 models and photographers gathered for some Pre-Halloween fun. Sun and Silver loaded up our darkroom and made the trip to do tintypes. We made over 25 tintypes that afternoon which was a record for us! Model KD Jae came by for some digital photos on the bench near our darkroom. She brought along photographer Steph or S Giron Photography. Here is… Read more: Nice Day for a White Wedding - Cloud Nine Fire Show Tintypes
Just a random Saturday night in Wisconsin – with tintype portraits of fire artists! Cloud Nine Fire Show is a Wisconsin based troupe of talented performers specializing in the art of flow. We’ve worked together earlier this Summer to capture the art of flow in the historic tintype process – see our first plates at Cloud Nine Tintypes. Unfortunately, your humble alchemist was unable to to capture the fire in the plates. So like the Alchemists of old, when confronted with failure it is back to the lab and the… Read more: Cloud Nine Fire Show Tintypes - Real Images for Real People
Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.’ – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know John Keats Veracity is the quality of being true, honest, or accurate. Photography was developed with the idea of capturing and preserving some scene in the real world. The deviations from reality were technical – mainly lens distortions and the limitations of chemistry. Unfortunately now we are bombarded with digital images that are at best doctored and at worst totally generated by AI computer systems. Sun and Silver.photo is dedicated to… Read more: Real Images for Real People - Ambrotypes with Nataly
July is a perfect time to do Ambrotypes with Nataly. This was the first time I fully utilized the real estate of my 12×12 Primer camera and made 12 inch by 12 inch glass plate. Silver collodion on glass is also know as an Ambrotype. It doesn’t sound like a big change going from an 8×10 inch image to a 12×12 inch image but the 12×12 is actually 80% bigger. That means 80% more chemical and 80% more area to cover evenly with collodion. It also means 80% more to… Read more: Ambrotypes with Nataly - 2025 Pinecrest Village Makers Market
We did a super fun tintype popup at the 2025 Makers Market – Pinecrest Village, Manitowoc. The Makers Market features dozens of historical artists and creators and is sponsored by the Manitowoc County Historical Society. Makers practice handmade craft from the 18th and 19th centuries and include pottery, blacksmithing, wooden shoes, sewing, cloth making & weaving, wood working and (of course) tintype photography invented in 1851. We had so much fun over the weekend. Met a lot of old friends and made some new ones. I only wish I had… Read more: 2025 Pinecrest Village Makers Market - Tintype Portrait of an Artist
We spent a wonderful weekend doing a Tintype Popup at Pinecrest Historical Village in Manitowoc. The event was the Manitowoc Historical Society’s annual Makers Market. While there we did portraits of both visitors and as many of the Makers as we had time for. Here is an 8×10 tintype portrait of Emma, an historical pottery artist and creator. What is a “Maker” and why do they need a Market? A Maker is someone who creates handcrafted items using historical methods and processes. Maker’s specialize in products that are heritage-inspired, well… Read more: Tintype Portrait of an Artist
