We stayed in Peach house at College of the Atlantic. We were in a dorm room set up as a triple on the second floor. The other side of the building was empty most of the time we were there, but a residence counselor turned up the last night or maybe even the last two …
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Foilography
My last workshop at the Nature Printing Society conference was on foilography. It’s a printing method that uses a piece of aluminum foil pressed over some object as its plate. Our instructor and the inventor of the technique, Charles Morgan, has a long writeup of it as a PDF that you can download. The big …
Fish Printing Field Techniques
On Thursday I continued my major in fish printing with the class in Fish Printing in the Field by Ian Workman of Cudjoe Key, Florida. Ian (shown below with Charlotte, another workshop participant) looks and talks a lot like someone you can easily picture hanging around the keys having a beer with Jimmy Buffet. We …
A little of Acadia
After a brief nap after the whale watch, we went to Acadia National Park. Arlene noticed that I’m old enough to get a senior pass to all national parks for the rest of my life for $10! Wow! that’s half the regular one day admission charge for a car just for Acadia! There was one …
Bar Harbor Whale Watch
Wednesday was a free day in the middle of the printing conference. The organizers had arranged whale watch reservations for those participants who wanted them, including of course us. So at eight o’clock we were walking into downtown Bar Harbor to the pier, carrying all the warm clothing we had with us. Pulling out of …
Indirect fish printing
My class on Tuesday was indirect fish printing with Mineo Yamamoto, an expert in Japanese fish printing. Mineo was at the Nature Printing Society conference that we went to two years ago. On Monday he had given a class here on printing a crab — — that’s one of the results of that class. Mineo …
Fish Printing 101
Yesterday I took a workshop in beginning direct fish printing with Don Jenson, who prints fish out in Oregon. This was direct printing, where you put the ink right on the fish, then put the paper on top of it and rub the back of the paper. There was a limited selection of subjects at …
Coacloud
I’m writing from the Coacloud wireless network. I’m not used to taking a laptop away from home and using it on whatever network I find. We’re attending the Nature Printing Society workshop at College of the Atlantic (that’s the Coa in Coacloud) in Bar Harbor, Maine. At the social hour after supper (a good salad …
Ouch ouch ouch ouch
That’s me running from a bunch of angry yellow jackets. That hadn’t happened to me in fifty years. When I was a kid my family spent our summer vacations on Lyme Rock Farm in Benson, Vermont. We spent a lot of our time fishing, swimming in Sunset Lake, and walking around the pasture. One day …
More on Aug 11 weekend
Charley, Nicole, and Emma were in Casco this weekend. Nicole had emailed beforehand to ask what berries were ready for Emma to pick. There are a few remaining raspberries, but by now mostly it’s blackberries. Arlene, Nicole, Emma, and I all went out picking. There were more blackberries than I expected. The bush I had …