I have not had time to work on my darkroom. But the printing business is good. Here is one of a set of salt prints of skis for sale in an antique shop. Total run of 4 prints. The original is a 35mm film negative that I took in some antique shop a few years ago. I really love this composition. This is an 8×10 inch print, on archival 140lb paper.

This is one of four prints I made this weekend – snowing all the time so I had to do something for fun! I used a new (to me) salted albumin coating (size) and am very happy with the results. There is a very nice satin sheen on the print which doesn’t show very well on the photograph.

Also pictured is one of my new print presses. I was tired of the “stack of books” method to flatten my prints so I picked up some 3/4in birch plywood to make some presses. This press is big enough for 9×14 inch prints. I have several extras which will be going up for sale. I also made a couple of bigger presses for up to 11×17 inches. Email me if you are interested in buying a press jeff@sunandsilver.photo

Why make extras? Well, the plywood pricing for a full sheet was less than double the pricing for a quarter sheet. So effectively the wood cost was less than half if I picked up a whole sheet. I don’t have much storage so cutting the extra wood in to more presses.

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