I wanted to create a moving cyanotype - reminiscent of the early botanical specimens created by Anna Atkins in her 1843 book, "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions".

This series is in its infancy and is an experimental animation technique. I will be updating this page with more notes and BTS images as it progresses.

Technical Notes:

- Each animation begins as a is a 15 sec continuous video loop at 24 fps. I used Adobe Premiere to create the loop and sequence the video.

- The video loop is exported into single frames. 15 sec @ 24 fps = 360 individual frames.

- All 360 frames are labeled, inverted, and printed as a negative. I used Adobe Lightroom to process the individual frames.

- Each of the 360 negatives were printed using the original 1842 Cyanotype process.

- Each of the 360 Cyanotype prints were then scanned and sequenced back into a 15 sec video loop.