Marshall Gulch

On the Sonoma Coast in California.

The rock out in the water on the left is called Arched Rock, the arch goes seaward, so is not visible from this side. This is a nice pocket beach where a small stream reaches the ocean.

7x11 Eastman No. 2, uncatalogued Wollensak lens.
f/32 for 24m

Light was a little difficult, it was sunny but with morning haze, so hard to know how much UV might be bouncing around. LV 15 water, sky; 14 sand, 13 foreground rocks.

Calotype made with Alexander Greenlaw's process.

Development: added 2 eyedroppers of ANS to 1.4g of gallic acid in 200ml DH2O. Image was very faintly visible at start, it came up fast and I stopped at 23 minutes. More pinholes and black spots than usual... I had just replenished my sensitizer and I wonder sometimes if it's more prone to some of these problems with fresh acid and silver in it. Dried between 3 changes of blotter for several days.

( digi-snap of reverse side by mistake.. I flipped it back in software but it's not as sharp as the front of the negative )