Venice Canal in Palladium

Lots to see here. Very nice!

Especially love the laundry on the line. Great work.

@tnp651 Thanks.
@JWMster, I too liked the laundry. Somewhere I have another Venice picture with laundry. And thanks.

Beauifull ! Your original is a 35 mm negative, enlarged to ? 8x10? This was then contact printed on hand-coated palladium paper.
The software used allows you to produce a digital negative that has the contrast range required to match your Pd-paper method ?

@Peter Rockstroh01 - Yes and yes and yes! Since inkjet technology has so vastly improved, it is possible to make negatives to size with a Photoshop Curve. Curves can be designed for any process. I even made one for gelatin silver contact printing. This enables one to start with a digital file, or as i frequently do, it allows me to correct problems in existing negatives, up to a point. Right now I'm looking at an 8 x 10 negative I made a few years back. I shot two films of the same subject, one wide open and one stopped down all the way. I guess I miscalculated reciprocity compensation, so the stopped down negative is too thin for palladium printing. Also, and much more troublesome, I scratched the negative during tray processing. (Something I hate to admit.) So I'll to scan it, fix the scratch in Photoshop, and then hopefully produce a negative that will work with palladium. I use Mark Nelson's Precision Digital Negative system, PDN to generate the curve. I have spent lots of time and money on this, but, hey . . . And I appreciate your compliment.

Thank you for the detailed answer. I can safely assume that the materials you use are as good as they get.
The possibility to produce enlarged negatives for contact printing Pt/Pd is both, enticing and scary.
Must be hard to resist the temptation of printing a really large copy of a good 8x10 negative. Although we
photograph completely different subject matter, I like the path your images took. No matter what you
photograph, your images are very intimate. Almost as if the viewer has to earn the right to look at them.