Pear

I love the brush strokes and the big border. What is the size of the paper You use ? Looks perfect for Your 4x5 print.

mmm - I am getting hungry

Wonderful print! Perfect for the cyanotype process, in my opinion. Nicely done!
- Thomas

Falkenberg - 8x10 inch paper (cut down from larger sheets) so there is a bit of white border and because it's BFK Rives, a deckle edge or two too, depending on where it was cut from. Very tactile, but the scanner doesn't show the deckled edge very well. I printed 4 of these for a print exchange so they'll be scattered to the four corners of the world soon.

Thanks for the praise, Thomas To think, I started this just because I saw a cyanotype of an apple someone else had done and I puffed up my chest at it and said I can do better than that.

Have You used artificial light ? Who makes the BFK Rives paper ? I am looking for a paper without too much texture for my cyanotypes.

I have an older version of this Philips Facial Solarium than this but it's similar enough http://www.amazon.co.uk/HB175-Philips-Facial-Solaria/dp/B0000D8B1Z

I'm not sure who makes BFK Rives, but it's a printmaking paper rather than watercolour so it is quite smooth. I bought mine at Atlantis Art in East London, UK.

Sorry I mean if You used flash or natural light when taking the picture.

Oh! Just window light, open a curtain kind of thing. I do that for all of the fruit in the series so far but it works best when it's bright and sunny outside (but not direct sunlight on the subject)

Very nice, well exposed, nicely printed.

Barry

The border seems a bit much for me -- perhaps it would be less though if the image was centered in the field of blue.

But great light and tones.

Vaughn