About this Camera-Free Gallery
The images on this page are classic cyanotypes, made very much like the first cyanotypes created in 1842. Plant material was contact printed in direct sunshine onto treated watercolor paper, then processed in the traditional manner.
“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.” –John Rushkin
“The earth laughs in flowers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature." –Rachel Carson