After seeing a friend's Platinum/Palladium prints, I had to dust off my old 8x10 Deardorff view camera. I wanted to photograph something that my friends did not. And the subject matter needed to be something I was interested in. I remembered a passage from ibn Arabi's autobiographical work and turned to the graveyard as my next subject.

These images were taken using an 8x10 Deardorff view camera. The beast weighs around 20 pounds and appears to have the base of a much larger 8x20 Deardorff panorama camera. I used Kodak TMax400 film rated at 400, and souped in D76. I had made a mistake of trying to print 4x5inch TMax100 on Platinum/Palladium. I had forgotten that there is a UV layer in the slower TMax film. So I "had" to remember to choose a film that did not have a UV layer. The 400 speed TMax does not. So now I get to try my hand at printing on Palladium.