Ploughs in vandyke browm

Very nice. I'd be very pleased with that. Light and shadow particularly well separated.

This is really nice. I think that not taking the picture put to the border works really well with this one.

Yes, very nice! I agree with MrBrowning, the irregular edges really work here.

Never tried that technique -- it gives a good 'Olde Worlde Pictorial Feel' to the subject.

I'm learning here. So VD Brown isn't always brown - but there's still a rendering of texture I don't see with other treatments that's really pleasing. Heavily weathered wood shows the texture, but with a more soft line. Peter's 'olde worlde' description seems well placed.

@HiHoSilver The scanner has given the picture a bluey hue, its more puplely grey. I used 1% gold Chloride/1% Thiourea and other chemicals toner. Gold tends towards the purple grey, you can use any of the metal toners for different effects and there are many different ways of processing which will change the out come. Even if you use the same process with the same times no two prints will be the same. Im still learning, trying to better my technique. Took me about six goes to get the highlight detail in the spokes, so much can go wrong and there is no back button.

@Svenedin @MrBrowning @bsdunek @pentaxpete
Thanks, hard to see what your painting in the dull light, actually got the paper upside down as there was supposed to be more of the wheel....ooops.

@awty Yes it is hard to see. I was coating paper for some cyanotypes and Argyrotypes today. Somehow my argyrotypes came out a sort of blue/grey and not brown at all!

I admire the spunk to try these processes. I'm still sorta tunnel-visioned on another aspect (composition), but have great respect for anyone exploring a new process or hanging on to older ones. The carbon transfer is the other process that has my imagination, but this has been the most compelling of the toning processes for me.