Hey Everyone, my name is Paul De Angelis and I’m new around here. Just discovered the site and am thrilled to see all of the beautiful work. I studied architecture at RISD but later became a tattoo artist (yeah, I know… strange choice, but that’s me)and I am a wet plate photographer by hobby/fascination/compulsion. I learned from John Coffer a few years ago and had the amazing opportunity to be Bob Szabo’s assistant when he was here in Atlanta. Mostly I like to make prints (cyanos, salt, albumen, Van Dyke) as opposed to positives, which I view as poor substitute for the Daguerreotype (I am not alone – so did many others in the 19th century!). I hope to learn the art of making mercurial dags in the near future, but it’s tough to travel to the seminars, which never seem to be held in Atlanta and always are a thousand miles away. I also enjoy making accessories for my wet plate work and hope to build my own camera soon (as in ‘next week’ soon!). For now I have a 100-year-old whole-plate camera and some antique lenses I enjoy using to get an authentic look to my images. If anyone would like to learn wet plate photography in exchange for some pointers in the making of Dags, just let me know! In the meanwhile I’ll be lurking around in the shadows…