Burbank Oak Calotype

Oak Tree at Luther Burbank's experiment farm in Sebastopol, California

I had difficulty with the paper becoming wavy in the holder, and this lens works much better if stopped down a bit. That is why the photo is soft and the edges are not straight and clean.

But this is my first full-size calotype on vidalon vellum paper. I'm pleased because some hard parts of this process went smoothly. The paper is 8x11 inches.

A salt print is currently washing and I'll probably post it tomorrow.

Camera is homemade foamcore fixed focus, lens is one element from a B&L Rapid Rectilinear. Exposure was 14 minutes at f/11. This is a calotype made with the process used by Alexander Greenlaw.