Here is another version of that window and another flashed lith print. But this time I used a different lith developer, resulting in a different toned result. If you're curious, this developer was Rollei Creative (aka Maco Super Lith). The previous flashed print used the Moersch Easy Lith developer. I also redid the lith print for this image as I wasn't quite happy with the first attempt.

Camera: Hasselblad 501CM with 80mm CF lens using Rollei Retro 400 B&W film, developed in Rodinal 1:50, scanned lith print on Forte warm-toned RC paper, flashed after lith development before stop bath

Song of the day: "Sugar Baby" by Samamidon

Poem of the day:
"SPIRIT whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours!
Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets;
Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing;)
Spirit of many a solemn day, and many a savage scene! Electric spirit!
That with muttering voice, through the war now closed, like a tireless phantom flitted,
Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum;
—Now, as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me;
As your ranks, your immortal ranks, return, return from the battles;
While the muskets of the young men yet lean over their shoulders;
While I look on the bayonets bristling over their shoulders;
While those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them, appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro, to the right and left,
Evenly, lightly rising and falling, as the steps keep time;
—Spirit of hours I knew, all hectic red one day, but pale as death next day;
Touch my mouth, ere you depart—press my lips close!
Leave me your pulses of rage! bequeath them to me! fill me with currents convulsive!
Let them scorch and blister out of my chants, when you are gone;
Let them identify you to the future, in these songs."
- Walt Whitman, "Spirit whose Work is Done"


Posted on 15 August, 2008 (20)