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Salted Paper and the Easter Egg Camera

January 30, 2026April 13, 2020 by Andy

This Easter was spent in quarantine. It was a great opportunity to take advantage of the sunshine to draw pictures with light. Let’s replace the sterile electronic world of digital cameras with a dip in the water and think back to the 1830s, the birth of photography.

Categories Photography Tags camera obscura, Easter, photography, salted paper, William Henry Fox Talbot Leave a comment

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