Ned's photos with the keyword: direct positive

It rained here on Friday and I let this pinhole shot go for 48 minutes to try another direct positive. Blacks came out a bit weak ( I think I pre-flashed the paper double by mistake ) but it looks kinda neat anyway.

I tried to make another "direct postive" using polycontrast paper that expired in 1977. This is fog on the 40 year old paper, but on Tuesday when I made this standing on my back porch, the whole world was white with smoke and I could not see anything beyond those trees. Nothing but worry and fear for the people living beyond that wall of smoke.

Oaks at Crane Creek Regional Park in Sonoma County, California. This is a new direct positive process developed by Ricardo Leite and Joe Van Cleave. You are looking at the same photopaper that was in my coffee can pinhole camera, not an inverted scan or contact print. It uses hydrogen peroxide and citric acid instead of more toxic and dangerous chemicals like potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. This particular one was made even more safely by using weak 3% hydrogen peroxide like you can buy at any drugstore.

This is a remnant apple tree from orchards that were in our area over 100 years ago. Its trunk is hollow and has 3 big holes in it, but somehow it still hangs on. Many years I've made pies from its apples, but this year it did not manage to grow any. This is a new direct positive process developed by Ricardo Leite and Joe Van Cleave. You are looking at the same photopaper that was in my coffee can pinhole camera, not an inverted scan or contact print. It uses hydrogen peroxide and citric acid instead of more toxic and dangerous chemicals like potassium dichromate and sulfuric acid. This particular one was made even more safely by using weak 3% hydrogen peroxide like you can buy at any drugstore.