Ned's photos with the keyword: GRC

At the Veronda-Falletti Ranch in Cotati, California. Paper negative in a coffee can pinhole camera.

Redwoods at Riverfront Regional Park in Sonoma County, California pinhole paper positive, 1 hour. Redeveloped in thriourea. There was a bald eagle perched in a tree about a 1 minute walk from here.

Behind a handcrafted yarn store... This was painted flat barn red and is not overexposed after 6 minutes! ( Normal exposure would be around 40 or 45 seconds in full sunlight like this ) I tried this a week ago with a 1 minute exposure and the result was almost blank. Direct pinhole paper positive using mostly safer chemicals, re-developed in thiocarbamide.

In Cotati, California. Here in Northern California we don't have as many palm trees as in the Southern part of the state. Another pinhole paper positive made by bleaching the negative with hydrogen peroxide and then redeveloping with thiourea.

Today at Taylor Mountain Regional Park in Sonoma County, California.. my little coffee can pinhole camera was sitting in the middle of the trail and my dog was lying there waiting patiently when another group came along with a dog so I picked it up after 4 minutes.... was planning to go a bit longer but I like how it came out anyway :) Another "direct paper positive" redeveloped in thiocarbamide. It's a bit difficult to get midtones with the thiocarbamide ( compared to re-exposing and developing w/ paper developer ) .. you can see some good midtones in the pool of sunlight just in front of the camera, but that was quite bright. I'm learning that if you want to develop these in sepia, you need to give more exposure or it ends up like a notan.

This is one of my favorite trees... at Crane Creek Regional Park in Sonoma County, California Pinhole paper positive made by reversal process using safe chemicals.

At Ragle Ranch in Sebastopol, California. Pinhole paper positive made by reversal process using safe chemicals.

Another "direct positive" made from the photo paper that was in my pinhole coffee can camera.

It rained here on Friday and I let this pinhole shot go for 48 minutes to try another direct positive. Blacks came out a bit weak ( I think I pre-flashed the paper double by mistake ) but it looks kinda neat anyway.

Oaks at Crane Creek Regional Park in Sonoma County, California. This is a new direct positive process developed by Ricardo Leite and Joe Van Cleave. You are looking at the same photopaper that was in my coffee can pinhole camera, not an inverted scan or contact print. It uses hydrogen peroxide and citric acid instead of more toxic and dangerous chemicals like potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. This particular one was made even more safely by using weak 3% hydrogen peroxide like you can buy at any drugstore.

This is a remnant apple tree from orchards that were in our area over 100 years ago. Its trunk is hollow and has 3 big holes in it, but somehow it still hangs on. Many years I've made pies from its apples, but this year it did not manage to grow any. This is a new direct positive process developed by Ricardo Leite and Joe Van Cleave. You are looking at the same photopaper that was in my coffee can pinhole camera, not an inverted scan or contact print. It uses hydrogen peroxide and citric acid instead of more toxic and dangerous chemicals like potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. This particular one was made even more safely by using weak 3% hydrogen peroxide like you can buy at any drugstore.

Like an 1880 Mars rover view....

Pinhole paper negative from February. It was the first rain in a late winter. We're having plenty of rain now! Gold-toned salt print made December 2014.