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Comment on WaterWomen, Bicycle Diaries & The Rings of Saturn by christian harkness

christian harkness — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:12:34 +0000

Thanks for your support Natalia!!! :)

Comment on WaterWomen, Bicycle Diaries & The Rings of Saturn by Natalia

Natalia — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:08:25 +0000

Your Water Women – is a great project, those everyday mermaids look absolutely surreal and timeless in your photographs. And so beautiful!
The book will reveal their existence to the world, and bring a bit of magic in our routine life. I’m sure book will be great and I believe people need it.

Comment on Fire Ants by christian harkness

christian harkness — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Hey Jonathan – a million thanks, and I would love to come back!!!!

Comment on Fire Ants by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:54:05 +0000

Christian, loved having you as a guest artist. You are welcome back anytime. You and Zandy did a fantastic job of making the gallery look great.

Thanks Again, -J

Comment on Huckleberrey’s by calciogoal

calciogoal — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:59:39 +0000

very beauty

Comment on Printing on Gold & Silver Leaf by christian harkness

christian harkness — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:27:28 +0000

Hey Francesca, great to hear from you! To address your questions, no – none of them are transfers, and I have not tried transfers. Nitsa at :
http://nonphotography.com/blog/
blogs about that a lot, if you have not already visited her site, you will find it interesting.

In my images above, the leaf is covered with one or two coats of InkAid, and then printed directly with my Epson R2400.

I have also printed directly onto the leaf without coating it first. The images come out less distinct, but depending on the image, can look extremely good. Another way I have seen that is interesting, is to print on transparency and then back that with leaf.

I do spray the finished print with a Krylon fixative, otherwise they will smear.

Take care! – c

Comment on Printing on Gold & Silver Leaf by Francesca Fuller

Francesca Fuller — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:37:01 +0000

I’m just starting to print onto gold leaf boards, via gel transfers and I was wondering if you’ve ever done anything like that…you images above did you print those directly from your computer/printer, or did you transfer them? Also do you coat the metal leaf before printing? I tried doing that way first and it didn’t work, gold disappeared, I’m wondering if it tarnished……I love your images and work and hope to see them someday in real life! Keep up the great work. Cheers Francesca

Comment on Fire Ants by christian harkness

christian harkness — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:24:48 +0000

Thanks!!! :)

Comment on Fire Ants by yamuga

yamuga — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:45:55 +0000

Hey, Christian. Congratulations, I’m sure it was an awesome show. I only wish I could see it!
Always your fan:)
Natalia

Comment on Using the Holga and the Zero 2000 pinhole cameras by christian harkness

christian harkness — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:26:08 +0000

Photographing directly into the sun can often be quite rewarding – or a total disaster. The last one is also into the sun. I find it often easier to do that with pinhole cameras.