“To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.” — Charles Godfrey Leland /// #wetplate 8x10” Tintype

“Master” /// 8x10 Tintype /// #wetplate

“Slut” /// hand-coated cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf on Arches Aquarelle watercolor paper. #cyanotype #altprocess #altphoto

“Self-Portrait with Camera” / Hand-coated cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf. #cyanotype #altprocess #altphoto

“Anonymous” — crop from an 8x10 #wetplate #tintype

“Self-Portrait with Camera” — Hand-Coated Cyanotype. This is my camera Minerva: She’s 122 years young, and she has seen some shit. She’s currently partnered with a slutty Russian lens she rescued from the gutter — an Industar-37. #cyanotype

“Actaeon Discovers Artemis” — Hand-coated #cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf from a 6x7 120 negative. Shit, I made the mask too. #analogphotography #filmphotography #altprocess

Hand-coated cyanotype with hand-applied 24k gold leaf from a 4x5 negative

Took this #wetplate today.

Sometimes, my wet plates just get fucked up. And, sometimes, those fuck ups look cool. Embrace serendipity!

👱🏻‍♀️: @creaturenoir (IG)
📷: @iggybug.bsky.social

#wetplate

So, I’m primarily a photographer of nudes. My work ranges in eroticism from “That’d be ok in some churches.” to “Larry Flynt is blushing!”

But I also love playing with lumen printing and photographing fungi, bats, and native California wildflowers. #photography

Perfect alignment should yield perfect color, but psychedelic fun results from intentionally imperfect alignment! #photography #experimentalphotography #trichromie #psychedelic

“The Ecstasy of St. Theresa” — this is absolutely erotic, but I’m proud of it as art. So glad to be able to share this publicly … screw you, Meta.

Model: Amelie Belain (ameliebelain.bsky.social).
Not that it matters, but I was shooting a Fujifilm X-T5 with the excellent Fujinon 50mm f/1.0 here.

“Oracle Anima” — Pretty sure this is my top image from 2024. This is an 8x10” hand coated cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle hot press paper with hand-applied 24k gold leaf. #cyanotype #altprocess #photography #altphoto

Amelie Belain (@ameliebelain.bsky.social) on wet plate collodion. There was no way I could share the plate on the left on Instagram or Threads, and even the plate on the right got dinged for “sexual activity”. #wetplate #photography

“Anima & Imago” — here’s a wet plate I was unable to share on IG/FB.

I also thought this would be a good test of Bluesky’s labels — this is “nudity” (artistic or non-erotic nudity). I mean, it’s both artistic and erotic?

Of my 2024 photographs, this one may be my favorite.