Cyanotypes /  by ellie berry

Last week I submitted the Alternative Processes project I've been working on. I realised that Friday that I hadn't scanned 90% of the prints I had done. So here are a couple of the the Cyanotypes I made - my scanner is horrendous. It left streaks all over the pages. Anyway, here we go! 

The images above are the three final images I submitted. Originally, they were all shot on Illford 400 XP(5?) in black and white (they're actually part of my Luas series). For these images, I wanted to recreate the idea of wiping away a patch of the window to be able to look out onto the outside world. 

The above a a couple of my work prints and how I progressed to my "wiped glass" effect. 

Happy New Year /  by ellie berry

There is something really special about finding a photo that you took years ago - no matter what platform its taken on (this photo was taken on a terrible phone camera) - and it really resonates with you. The feelings of the time, the other memories it sparks. So here's to a year of 1 million photos and 1 million places. And here's to being positive.

Good Luck. 

Merry Christmas /  by ellie berry

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. 

As I eat, drink (water) and be merry, I'm finding random little photos. Just to post something, here are a couple. 

35mm Ilford 400 ISO

Rejected Colour /  by ellie berry

I've been posting on twitter a few of the images I took at the same time as Colour Vienna, but they didn't make the final cut for the smaller selection I have online. So I've decided to share them all together here in a blog post, seeing as I have been quite silent online recently. 

Working with Negatives /  by ellie berry

So much to post and so little time. 
I've spent a week in Berlin, photographed the Irish Youth Lead Climbing Championship - and on the same weekend, gone through 48hrs with only 3 and a half hours sleep. I've been accepted by the Estonian Art Academy (YAY!) to go study there from this coming January until the end of May, and I have a project due in a week with no final images. 

So this is just a catch-up, and a post to show some negatives I've made of some of my Luas photos to use in Alternative Processes (I actually printed them today, but the prints were too wet to bring home). 

How I was once told I could be a moss photographer /  by ellie berry

Once, I was told that I should consider becoming a professional moss photographer; that there was surely a market of geological-based professionals who would buy photos of moss - a whole market completely untapped! 
It started off with me informing the other half of the conversation that I was going to France with my boyfriend for the summer to climb rocks - or in my case, to sit on the ground with a broken foot. My colleague pondered for a moment, then in a Eureka moment adamantly stated the word "Moss!". At a loss, I asked how moss was going to come into the equation (unless it was in the way of climbing). I was informed that moss is the one thing that will be plentiful where I was going, and that I should photograph it. They could think of no one who was currently documenting moss through photography and it could be an interesting path to go down. Nodding in agreement, I decided to contemplate this statement later, and moved onto the topic of how nice the ice-cream was. 

The never-ending folder battle /  by ellie berry

I'm someone who tries to organise their work into folders, but ultimately, I just end up with a head-spinning maze of click-throughs of folders, all with very similar names. So here's a post with just a couple of (stereo- typical)  black and white photos from probably four years ago. Enjoy! 

*also, if you know a system - a real system - to organising files, send me a link! 

Portfolio Submission! /  by ellie berry

I may not have been busy here on my main site for the past week - but look! I created and submitted a portfolio to go on Erasmus for the second semester of this college year! Excitement galore! 

www.cargocollective.com/ellieberry

All going well I'll be heading off to Estonia on the 3rd of January, into temperatures of -20°C and  a language I don't (yet!) speak. Now time to go start thinking about taking photos, and to typing less exclamation marks.