A healthy portion of my work in the last two years has bee made on an 8x10 view camera, an impractical yet seductive, beastly hunk of metal and glass that yield a negative so detailed that you can see your hair follicle’s hair follicles.

This last weekend, I made 15 images on the 8x10. The week before that, I exposed 10 sheets, which adds up to an entire box of ilford, $ 0.0001 per second. This rate is not sustainable by any means and I know I will have to set a fire alarm on my bank account here in the near future, but this camera is just so much fun to use and educate my friends about.

My favorite image is shared here, made on HP5 film and developed in D76 developer.

Beaver Falls, Oregon | 10 seconds at f/90

This was the first photograph that brutally challenged my patience, physical capabilities, and fear of bats. Beaver Falls is nestled beneath a cavern of basalt near the Oregon coast, where much of the bedrock is beginning to slowly wither away and break off in chunks into the river. The perspective this photo is shot from is adjacent to a series of massive gapes in the wall where there are undoubtedly bats and god knows what else.

The conditions were overcast with a light drizzle and intermittent hail, but I was mostly protected by the overhang of the basalt.