Wet plate collodin 8x10 camera

 These are from my third session with the wet plate collodion process. I finally got to use my 8x10 camera the results are insane. I’m so excited on the out come. If you look close you start to see all the in perfections that the beauty of the process. These are one of a kind images. Let see my cannon 5 D do this. Haha.

I'm slowly getting better at this. I still have to fine tune my work but I'm very happy with these photos.

Image#1: Austen Sweetin  8x10 wet plate collodin

Image#1: niko cioffi  8x10 wet plate collodin

My first Wet Plate Collodin Photograph

   I have a started new photography process that has changed my life. Let me rephrase that it is actually a process from the 1800s. The process is called Wet Plate Collodin.  The way it works is you apply chemicals to a sheet of glass. While the glass is still wet you put it into a film holder and then in to a view camera. After you shoot your photo you have to develop it immediately.  One of the reasons I like this so much is I am working with my hands to produce a one of a king photograph. Once digital photography came it to my life I started spending hrs at the computer. I was working on images that did not exist. A digital image is a computer code basically 1sand 0s.This code can be manipulate over and over by all most any one who gets there hands on it. There is no tangible base. I never imagined I my self as a photographer working at a computer all day. When I started photography I use to work in the dark room making hand made images. It is the beautiful art form that I fell in love with in the beginning of my photography experiences. With this process I feel like I’m falling in love all over again. I’m so excited!!! 

This is a photo from my first session using the Wet Plate Collodin Process! My friend Jordon Thomas was one of my first subjects. 

Interview with http://www.buoloco.com/

This is an interview I did for my buddies new web site. Check out the site and you can see more cool stuff there!http://www.buoloco.com/web6/content/intro

Ian Ruther is one of the best artist/photographers out there. His work speaks for itself and is literally out of this world.
Ian Ruther use to be a much better snowboarder than most of the pro's today. It's because of his style, class and of course the switch stance move which he is a master of.
In this interview, we talk about an array of stuff such as: art, the past, present, future, inspirations, snowboarding, Kevin Jones, and his next trip to Japan.
These days he's super focused on his talents in other fields apart from snowboarding, such as his landscape project, down town LA project, and his Enabled Preview project.
The last one, the Enabled Preview, is my favorite. Check this out and judge for yourself..
Aaron Fotheringham, 17, knows just what it feels like to slowly lose the ability to walk - a concept that could terrify most people. He was born with Spinal Bifida, a developmental birth defect that translates literally to "split spine." Aaron agrees that having the disease is painful. One of his hips is permanently out of the socket, causing constant pain, and forcing Aaron off of crutches and into a wheelchair. After tagging along when his brother would skateboard at the skate park, his brother suggested he try tricks in his wheelchair. "I don't feel it [my hip] when I'm at the skate park," he says. "My adrenaline is up and it's just my release." Aaron holds the world record for the first back flip in a wheelchair as of October 2008, an experience he calls nerve wracking, even though he completed his first back flip two years before that in 2006 and had done it several times since. He is sponsored by Schwalbe Tires, Fox Shocks and Osiris Shoes to name a few. He hopes to do a double back flip in the future and wants to inspire others, both disabled and able-bodied alike to get out of their homes and do something with their lives. "I want it to become common - people in wheelchairs doing flips. I'm not disabled. Being in a wheelchair isn't being disabled. I think that everyone else is disabled - you know, they have to actually walk."

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Untitled from BuoLoco on Vimeo.

These are the direct links to my interview im having a hard time up loading them to my blog.
http://www.buoloco.com/web6/content/ian-ruther-talks-uno
http://www.buoloco.com/web6/content/ian-ruther-talks-dos

This is the photo form Chile that i was referring to.

Whistler BC Canada… I have never see any thing like this!

Today was one of the best days of my life. In one afternoon I saw every spectrum of light every season spread across the most beautiful mountains in the world. The weather was crazy with in 30 minutes it would change. It went from snowing to sun and some times it was sunny and snowing.

I was standing on a ridge waiting for the light to come on to a snowboard jump we want to shoot. In that time I watched the same seen change over and over again. I thought I was looking at a painting it did not look real.

These mountains are so big it was over whelming. I watched the clouds over take a whole mountain range with in minutes. Here I am standing on a ridge watching a wall of clouds concurring these mountains. I felt very small at this point. I also felt like I was part of some thing so big.

The clouds push forward rising from the valley the wind shot up under the clouds separating them from this peek.

The snow started falling so hard and the sun was still shining trough.

20 minutes later it cleared. This is what was revealed . I look at life like this when there is crazy weather in your life and you can’t see 5 feet in front of you. when you start to think there is no way you will get through it. That is when I remember this seen. The beauty is out there you just have to believe its there and you will make it through it.

Like clock work the clouds rolled back in. amazing!

I waited all day to see this mountain it is my favorite on. It raveled it self in the sunset for me. What a day!

Forum 2010 season/ Things don't add up!

Sometimes things just don’t add up. We have been working on this jump for a few days and the whole time we were just laughing saying this thing dose no add up. When you build a 120-foot gap it has to be perfect. We had the jump built last week and ready to go. We wanted to wait for a storm to pass so we could hit it with fresh snow. When we returned the run in had filled in with snow it looked like no work had been done on it. After looking at the jump we could tell some thing was wrong. The jump had slid down the hill and was leaning side ways. I have never seen anything like this. It took us ten hrs to straighten every thing out. All this work for was done for something that might not work.

John Jackson testing out the new run in for the jump as the sun was setting.
John wondering what is possible to do over the massive gap. We saw the sun rise and set while we worked on this project. What a long day!
Here we are the next day get ready for the gap jump.What we do is nothing like the Ex Games were you have people to wax your board. This is a look at what real snowboarding is like.
The true spirit of snowboarding is in the backcountry. Most people only see snowboarding on TV by watching contest like the Ex Games . If you don't know the way they portray this sport is as fake as any other realty show. This is it no glam we are out on the front lines pushing things as far as humanely possible.
Jake Welch waiting to see what the day will bring.
On one of John attempts at this gap he took a pretty had fall. This photo shows how high the consequences are for doing some thing like this. This is what I mean when it say things don't add up!
This is a look at the entire gap you can see how far he had to jump to make it. To go this far and end up on your head is just a crazy thought. You don't get snowboarder of the year by not taking chances.The jump ended up working out John got a few tricks on it. You will be able to see them when his interview comes out in snowboarder mag next year. These are the kinds of jumps that John is known for. He has incredible determination every day we go out he pushes snowboarding as far as possible. This is not a made for TV event this is the real deal. This is about love sometimes it hearts but when it works out there is no better felling.

Landscape project 2010#4

Emerald Bay is one of the most photographed locations in the United States. Most of the time you see it at sunrise or sun set. I shot this one during the last full moon. When I use to live in Lake Tahoe I would come here to think all the time. I would just sit and look out at the island and for get about my problems. I like to shoot at night because you see thing under a different light. This is symbolic of how I solve my problems. Being able to see thing from a different perspective helps me to come with the answers my questions.

forum 2010 season/a lesson in perseverance!

This season has been a lesson in perseverance! Nothing is falling in to place this year we have been going out trying to shoot snowboarding every day but Mother Nature is working against us. Or maybe we are not working with her? It's time to not focus on what we don’t have and look at what I do have to work with. I know you just have to keep trying every day. Today I reminded my self you cant not do anything about yesterday but today is what counts. I have had to rethink how I do my job this year. Now we have decided to go out every day rain snow or shine. In the craziest of situations I have created my best photos. I guess I do better under presser and presser is definitely on now.

John Jackson standing on a ridge in 80 mile an hour winds. My camera bag filled up with snow when I opened it to get my camera out to shoot this.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, gonna try with a little help form my friends

I love this song it's our theme song this year!!!!