I found this sea lion skull on the Aleutian Islands (Unimak Island). My father was a commercial fisherman, and I spent a lot of time as a kid roaming the shores of Alaska. One year, we decided to head out to the Aleutian Islands to fish for crab. I spent many off hours ashore finding amazing glass floats from the other side of the globe as well as this sea lion skull. I saw lots of brown bears, and had the time of my life beachcombing up there. 8x10 wet plate collodion "ambrotype" on clear glass (scanned on a flatbed scanner)
5-second exposure
12" Walzl Petzval lens from the late 1800s
Aperture: F5
Kodak Master View 8x10 camera
CFL lights on each side, with a black drop cloth to help float the skull
Rapid Fixer
5-second exposure
12" Walzl Petzval lens from the late 1800s
Aperture: F5
Kodak Master View 8x10 camera
CFL lights on each side, with a black drop cloth to help float the skull
Rapid Fixer
- 8x10
- 19th century
- aleutian
- Aleutian islands
- alt process
- alternative process
- alumitype
- ambrotype
- beach
- beachcombing
- collodion
- collodion photography
- darkroom
- ferrotype
- fishing
- ISO Photographic
- Ivan Sohrakoff Photographic
- Kodak Master
- Kodak Master View
- large format
- petzval
- plate
- positive
- sand
- sea lion
- sea lion skull
- silver
- silver nitrate
- skull
- tintype
- Unimak Island
- walzl
- walzl baltimore
- walzl baltimore lens
- walzl lens
- walzl petzval
- wet plate
- wet plate collodion
- wet plate photography
- wet plate portrait
