Carbon Transfer Print: Monte Lake Fire

[Andrew O'Neill]

https://youtu.be/QgtqerfPL6M

[Tin Can]

Thank you for documenting fire regrowth

Few are brave enough to show

Great process you have Mastered

and shown the way

Bravo!




https://youtu.be/QgtqerfPL6M

[Saimanch]

https://youtu.be/QgtqerfPL6M

Nice

[Drew Wiley]

Sometime you should use carbon scraped from the burnt trees - that would make it really authentic! It would be like the fellow who used uranium toner for prints made from old above ground atomic bomb test negatives. Regrowth can be fascinating. But it's sad how far north these massive fires are going.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Sometime you should use carbon scraped from the burnt trees - that would make it really authentic! It would be like the fellow who used uranium toner for prints made from old above ground atomic bomb test negatives. Regrowth can be fascinating. But it's sad how far north these massive fires are going.

Way ahead of you, Drew. For one image that I shot on this trip, I went back in the Spring and collected ash from burnt, fallen trees that were in the shot. I had an exhibition in Japan in 2014 to celebrate World Heritage designation given to a couple of mines in a town that I taught in (Omuta City). Twenty four years ago, the city's cultural minister gave me a skeleton key so that I could enter the grounds of the abandoned mines. Some of the old brick buildings there are well over a hundred years old. Anyways, for that show, I used ground up coal from one of the mines for the prints. Not an easy task, but I sold every last print, and donated a portfolio to the city. Oh, by the way, I still have that key...and it still unlocks the main gates! :D