Digital Black and White

Yesterday proved to be another productive day. I mixed up some chemicals for the darkroom where I will go today and start printing some of the images from Europe. Afterwards, I couldn't help myself and I worked on two photo transfers. There was a photo I took in a winery that had some murals on the walls. When I looked at them, I saw 'photo transfer' written all over it. So I worked on that one, and then printed out the No Hands Bridge at the American River confluence that I had taken last year or so. I didn't have to add any water color to that one. It was already a light foggy day and I wanted it to still portray that original image. It came out rather well I must say. I placed them in a book last night to press them out.

This morning I was doing some research online about gallery wraps since I received an email from BayPhoto on pricing for their gallery wraps. They also now offer 'Fully Integrated E-commerce Solutions' on their website. In other words, you can upload their software and actually sell from their website. You might want to check it out, it looks pretty inviting. Pricing is based on the number of uploads and is very economical for them handling everything. You can have them edit your photos or not. Then I remembered MagnaChrome. So I searched that website again and printed out some of their info - which to me sounded reasonable considering your images are printed on metal. Actually, the image is not printed onto metal, special dyes are printed onto a transfer paper and then infused into a patented coating using pressure and heat. There are several ways to finish the picture: no frame, European frame, and/or a floating frame. I'm seriously contemplating giving that a try and see how those work out for me at galleries.

This image I've posted today is again a scene from Cephalonia, Greece. We passed a little boy who had been riding his bike, and then he seemed to be a little frustrated and/or was just taking a break, who knows? But he was rather cute and I turned around once more and clicked off a shot.