A artist fascinated with a “new way” of creating images is Heather Oelklaus, who now has an artist gallery page at cdags.org. A participant in Takashi Arai’s workshops she has fun experimenting with both mercurial and Becquerel processes. One image was a 9 hour exposure, “I just wanted to see what a long exposure would look like”. Another was intentionally overexposed by 20 seconds in order to obtain solarisation.

A find at the recent Daguerreian society meeting has expanded the date range of Ken Nelson’s collection of post daguerreian era images. Also now in the collectors’ gallery it is a sixth-plate image on a plate manufactured in the 1850’s but the image dating from the 1890’s, signed on the paper tape seal. According to Romer (History of photography vol 1, No. 1, July 1977) and other sources, Steffens was a premier Chicago photographer who briefly revived the daguerreotype in his studio between 1890 and 1900. He used vintage plates and equipment, but apparently took advantage of electricity for his buffing wheels.

Two new images have been added to Eric’s gallery showcasing his skills at portaiture

During the long hot summer days Åke Hultman likes to sit under a magnificient birch that is the subject of his latest dag. It is a 9×12 cm Dag, brush coated at home, developed with the cold mercury process and now added to his gallery

Another exhibitor at the exhibit in Bry, Oneida had worked with other historical photographic processes (Salted paper, albumen, gum dichromatea and cyanotypes) before approaching Marc Kerun for tuition in Daguerreotypy. Oneida comes from Madrid but lives in Barcelona with her partner Esteban Naves who also exhibited at Bry. Counter to the common modern approach they both started out with the mercurial process and are now working on Becquerel developed daguerreotypes which will soon be added to her gallery.

A new whole plate added to Mike’s galley pagepays homage to Marcus Aurelis Root’s book “The Camera and Pencil”. It is an electroplated and galvanisied plate as opposed to his usual preference of clad plate.

Takashi Arai is exhibiting a series of 20 Daguerreotypes entitled “Flawless Lakes” at the Project Basho Gallery in Philadelphia. In conjunction with that he is giving a workshop this weekend (7th and 8th Nov). The venue, Project Basho, is hosting a panel discussion with Takashi Arai and other contemporary practitioners on Friday, November 13th, so if your in the neighbourhood come share your Daguerreian experiences.
While staying in Philadelphia Takashi is taking commissions for portraiture. The portraits are presented in the Japanese traditional hard image wooden boxes.