For my bachelorette party I went upstate with some pals. We ate nectarines and listened to Duran Duran and made sunprints. I didn’t get boozy because I am already knocked up (sorry mom, I almost made it to the alter).

Anyway, those sunprints really brought me back… to making sunprints. When I was little.

They’re pretty much just magic.

You know who else makes magic images from nature without a camera? Christine Caldwell. She uses some good old plants and animal bits and a good old enlarger and then= SUPER MAGIC.

Here’s how she describes them:

“Illuminated Negatives” are a collection of limited edition color photograms consisting of leaves, flowers and insects. No camera, film, or computer is used in their creation. I print them myself in the darkroom using a dichroic enlarger and color photographic paper.

Here are the steps!

1. After many hours of adjusting the enlarger in combination with the specimen’s natural color and the color paper, the final palette emerges.

2. The specimen is placed on the paper in total darkness.

3. The paper is processed.

4. Voila! The final result.

LOOK!

amazing (my image insert widget made a haphazard grid. i thought it was sort of charming so I left it. i’m sorry if it annoys you.)

I would like the butterflies in three straight lines on my wall, large. Christine, can you hook me up? OR 20×200! You do an edition, please.

It will make many people happy.