Wanders and Meditations on the Pacific Coast Highway,  Summer 2020. The mobile darkroom is a              1985 Toyota Dolphin, a step up from the darkroom tent that I was using until two years ago.

 A new blog for a new decade: It has been 14 years since I took my first workshop in the Wet Plate Collodion Process. When I started my journey (as a collodionist) in 2006, I was still a photojournalist, but had been working with large format Polaroid Materials, which were becoming extinct. I still lived in Detroit, where I was finishing the restoration of a 120 year old house.  Two storms:  (the economic crash and the demise of print journalism)  on the horizon and I was about to cash in my chips and move to Los Angeles, where I planned to pursue a secondary teaching credential. Have coasted by for years with no health insurance, I decided that I would commit full time to teaching. I was a portrait photographer who did an occasional landscape.  When you move to LA, you often have to re-invent yourself.  Shortly after moving there, I did my last photo assignment for a print magazine in early 2007. I did complete one last documentary style portrait project-o...