Blue Prints: Cyanotype Photographs

This is a beautiful book, many hours have I spent looking at. Is it amazing book. Beauty is in the eye of the holder say Plato toiling pulling his wooden harness strapped to his shoulders over the fields whilst ploughing and tilling the land looking at 'Blue Prints' gazing at the fine detail portrayed on every page. 'Mama Mia' he screamed as he stubbed his toe on a plinth of rock poking its way up through the ground causing he to swear and spit on the rock. It was only the beauty of Blue Prints which kept up his spirits in the blazing mid day sun of his native Bulgaria.

カラーやモノクロ、そしてレントゲン写真では表現し得ない美世界がそこにはある。独特の技法Cyanotypeによって映しだされたblueの対象は空でも海でもなく、もともと固有の色を持った花や昆虫などである。どの写真もクォリティが高く、一貫して裏切らないblueの透明感と被写体の繊細さに、ページをめくるたびため息が漏れる。心にしみる1冊である。

As digital imaging takes over photography, large format, fine art photography using historical techniques such as cyanotype will become very rare and hopefully valuable. I purchased several 8x10 large format cameras for use with making cyanotype prints. Sure, I love my Nikon D200 and plan to get a D700 as well, but I don't believe digital images will create fine art photographic art that will appreciate in value compared to large format film images.