Three framed plates in passé partout have been submitted for the ImageObject exhibit by Marinus Ortelee and Charlotte Edam from the Netherlands.

Three plates from Máté Bakody in Hungary have been submitted to the ImageObject exhibit.

The much-needed (and difficult) forum upgrade has been completed. Thank you all for your patience with this long process, it has taken many person hours on the part of your volunteer editorial staff. Enjoy!

Please note that there is a new login widgit in the left navigation area – if you wish to post, please be sure to log in. There is a lost password link as well. A further improvement is that the search box on the front page will now search the forums as well as the blog posts.

If you have any comments on the new forum or encounter any troubles, there is a topic available to post your thoughts.

For those of you in the USA, Happy Thanksgiving!  We are looking forward to renewed discussions of our shared craft.

Brenton West has submitted a framed 4×5 inch daguerreotype for selection to the ImageObject exhibit.

You may have noticed the the dagforum is still being beset by spam comments. As a result the forum has been taken down while admins Andy and Jon work on upgrading it. Its complicated as the site is database driven with wordpress blogging software integrated with the bbpress forum software. Add to the wiki to that and you will see how we like to make life difficult for ourselves. Bear with us and the forum with all the threads should be back in place soon.

Takashi Arai’s daguerreotypes are part of a multimedia exhibit in Tokyo with a guitar and violin experimental music program. It involves the daguerreotypes, lighting devices and a movie based on the reflecting images on the daguerreotypes.

Two plates have been submitted for selection to the ImageObject exhibit by Ake Hultman.

Three plates have been submitted for selection for ImageObject exhibit by Eric Mertens.

A gallery page has been added for the talented Lukas Fritz, a 19 year old student from Munich, Germany. He has been making daguerreotypes for just a year with most of that time spent building the equipment (fuming boxes, mercury pot). Lukas is no stranger to demanding technical projects, as one of his websites shows (check his cocktail making machine!).