Some pics and commentary from APIS 2009.

This year was a bit smaller than usual. Surprised? Probably not. Who likes flying and who wants to risk the cash?

What we lacked in size we made up for in intensity.
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Dr. Susan Barger and Seth Irwin do a joint presentation. Seth is getting his Masters in Photo Conservation at Qeen's College in Canada and Susan is the author of the seminal book on Daguerreotypes and is a recognized authority on them. She discussed issue on the deterioration of Dags.

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Luther Gerlach unveils his 22x30 inch wet plate camera that he built.

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Bob Herbst did a demo on putting carbon prints on aluminum. Fascinating!

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While Bob and I were doing two separate demos on carbon, Luther was doing two livew one on doing Ambrotypes outside. Here are a couple of Ambrotypes from the demo.

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Luther talks.

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Later we went back to the auditorium and Stan Klimek did a talk on the business of printing for other folks.

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Auriel D'Amore Discusses the work of her late uncle and my dear friend Richard D'Amore. Richard was a highly accomplished photographer and was in the original Platypus Portfolio Group that I founded in 1984. Richard was murdered by gunshot by his wife Academy Award nominated make-up artist Hallie D'amore in 2006. Hallie committed suicide at the scene. Needless to say it was a moving presentation and finale to the event.

I'm bushed. More later.

--Dick

More:

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David Hyams, our digital negative guru at B+S takes a shot at making a carbon print. his is a shot from his Israel and Palestine series.

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Setting up for 5 prints in 5 minutes. This is an event I invented about 10 yeara ago. We used to put out tables during the sign-in and 1st morning reception for APIS events. The problem was people would hog a table. I came up with a system where folks got to show 5 prints and had 5 minutes to show them. Maddy Willis has been our Ms. Discipline. She has a stopwatch and a gong - really! It has always been a popular event. Everyone knows the rules and we get to see a lot of work from a lot of people in a very short time.

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Dr. Susan Barger and Seth. This time from the front.

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Denise Ross does a stunning presentation on making your own silver emulsion. F.U. Kodak, Ilford and Agfa!

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Melody Bostick womans the booth at the PhotoArts marketplace after APIS. APIS is part of PhotoArts, and event melody and I started.

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Here is Luther's portable wetplate darkroom. Eat your heart out Roger Fenton.

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Gordon Mark shoots me shooting him.

Sounds like it went very well, Dick!

I dropped my wife at the Dallas-Ft Worth Airport at 5am on August first, and knew there was no way I could drive me and my 3 boys to Sante Fe in time to say howdy -- so me ant the boys headed to Carlsbad Caverns instead! I will be home in another week or so (hanging out at the So Cal beach for the next week, catchin' so waves!)

Congrats on a sucessful APIS!

Vaughn

Dick and all, the show looks great! I wish I could have been there. I'm hoping for next year. I've never been to Santa Fe.

Jim

My little hands !

Thanks Melody , Richard Dana and Leigh!!