A recent post by my friend Silverpixel introduced me to the Autochrome process and I’ve spent most of the past two days playing with tutorials from the web which try to duplicate the delicate tones and feel of the original photographs.  It is remarkable that this was the go-to process for colour photos from the turn of the last century until Kodak brought out Kodachrome around 1930.

Here’s an attempt using a shot of hollyhocks from Sweetman’s Garden made a year ago last summer.

I hope the treatment has a romantic and nostalgic feeling to it.

Anyway, it’s been a fun two days!

Except in the arena or the curling club of course.

Tonight was more subtle than most.

But really nice.

Had I been born on the Prairies, I suppose I would not have had the exposure to the warmth and regular patterns of brick walls.  Brick is rare out there.

New home construction these days uses almost no brick, opting instead for other materials.  The brick facade (front wall brick, the rest siding) seen on some houses is the ultimate in fraudulent design.

Is brick laying a dying art?

What’s behind there?

So here goes!

Photo of an active house in winter.  A bit of warming, application of the Polaroid Backing filter and nice border plus fooling with the tint in the PS saturation adjustment layer set on soft light.

Kinda wierd but it works.(?)

It’s still cold.

The sun set over a frigid world.

Almost monochrome.