Karmen Meyer 10/7/25 Karmen Meyer 10/7/25

Diptych #15

A bare tree stands in solitude, branches raised in a frozen prairie landscape. Alberta Prairies, 2024. Photographed on medium format film. — **WINTERING.**

A black and white multiple exposure of a woman standing in a lake. Her arms raised and her figure is exposed as mulple versions of herself arelayered upon one another. Photographed on 35mm film. Great Salt Lake, Utah 2024. — **SURRENDER.**

Karmen Meyer 9/29/25 Karmen Meyer 9/29/25

Diptych Project #14

A red Bronco cruises the strip in Sylvan Lake. Framed by lush tree's and a path filled with tourists. The reds pop and higlights glow, a quirk of the film. Harman Pheonix, the first time I have used it. 35mm developed and scanned at home. — **Sylvan Lake, Summer 2025**. Photographed on Harman Pheonix and, as always, developed in my kitchen.

A red railing frames a little girl on s bike, a red bucket and a women and her dog in different panels of the fence. Boats and sylvan lake are in the background. All the reds pop, a quality of the film, Harman Pheonix. Developed and scanned at home — **Sylvan Lake, Summer 2025**. Photographed on Harman Pheonix and, as always, developed in my kitchen.

Karmen Meyer 9/23/25 Karmen Meyer 9/23/25

Diptych Project #13

There is always something new to learn. And damn am I happy I got to learn Wet Plate, in the West Virginia mountains, from the talented, permissive and all around kind human Lisa Elmaleh. The first plate below was taken on the first day, the second on the last. Safe to say I learned a whole lot.

Nerds, proceed here —> Wet plate photography is a historic photographic method invented in the mid 1800s. Long story short you coat a metal plate (tin type) or glass plate (ambrotype) with collodion, sensitize it in a silver bath, expose your image and then develop your photograph. All while the plate is still wet. The process is somewhat complicated, sure. But it requires you to operate on intuition in a way that keeps you so magnificently present. Plus watching your image appear in the fixer is basically some kind of magic.

I’ve got to say I didn’t attend this workshop with any sort of ambition to continue making wet plates at home. I just wanted to dig deeper into understanding the history of photography. But I sure don’t feel finished with this. And the hunt for a 4x5 camera and chemicals has begun.

A nude bum sits on a stump, it's roots a tangle below. The photo was made using a historic photographic process called Wet Plate or Tin Type photography. Taken with Lisa Elmaleh in West Virginia. — **ROOTED I.** Photographed on 4×5 aluminum plate using the Wet Plate process in Paw Paw, West Virginia. My thumbprint obscures the centre of the frame.

A women sits on a log with her dress lifted over her head. Exposing her bum which mimics the shape of the stump. It's roots tangled below and the forest surrounds. The photo is a Wet Plate / Tin Type. Taken with Lisa Elmaleh in Paw Paw, West Virginia — **ROOTED III.** Photographed on 4×5 aluminum plate using the Wet Plate process in Paw Paw, West Virginia.

P.S. Lisa is doing powerful work at the US/Mexico border. I highly recommend you check out her work and workshops! https://www.lisaelmaleh.com/promised-land

Karmen Meyer 9/15/25 Karmen Meyer 9/15/25

Diptych Project #12

A little short on words today, but I’m not gonna let that stop me from posting.

Layers of crop create an ethereal blur of texture in the forground, while layers of forest and hills come into focus in the background. Photographed on BW film, developed and scanned in my kitchen. — **PRAIRIES.** Sylvan Lake, August 2025.

Two canoes are being paddled on Lake Louise, while fluffy clouds rest on the tops of mountains. Photographed on Black & White 120 film. Developed and scanned in my kitchen. — **MOUNTAINS.** Lake Louise, July 2025.

Karmen Meyer 9/8/25 Karmen Meyer 9/8/25

Diptych Project #11

This project got lost in the chaos of summer, which was actually fine and perfect. But now, as a bit of routine returns to our days, it feels like a perfect time to pick it up back up again. I love how it invites me to look at my work in a new way, in pairs. And that it reminds me to share instead of hoarding all the photos on the hard drives that sit in the rubbermaid container at the end of our dining room table (my temporary office going on 3 years).

I wanted to start things off again with some photos of the girls. To honour their shift into new grades, and for Audrey a brand new school in town.

**THRESHOLD IN A GHOST TOWN.** A window to the past and steps to the future. Photographed on Portra400. Developed and scanned in my kitchen.

**LAST CHANCE SALOON.** Cross eleven bridges and you just might find yourself at the Last Chance Saloon. Deep in the heart of the Albertan Badlands. Photographed on Portra400. Developed and scanned in my kitchen.

Karmen Meyer 6/9/25 Karmen Meyer 6/9/25

Diptych Project #8

Film photograph of two sisters, 9 and 10. Their eyes are closed and the sun shines brightly on their faces. One girl faces the camera and the other , slightly in front faces to the side. Photographed on medium format film using a vintage TLR camera — **SAME BUT DIFFERENT.** Same family. Same genetics. Same home. Different directions. Different motives. Different gifts. Photographed on Kodak Gold (and the first home scans that made me feel like I was really starting to get the process dialled in)

A girl swings from a tree whose trunk veers hard to the left before turning upwards again. Her sister sits on a rock at the base of a tree watching. Photographed on a vintage Twin Lens Reflex Camera using medium format film. — **SAME BUT DIFFERENT II**. In our yard is a crooked tree. The way it grows nearly horizontal in the middle is our favourite part about it. The crooked bit perfectly holds the swing everyone loves to rest on. After the bend it continues growing straight upwards like all the trees around it. But it’s not like every tree around it. Photographed on Kodak Gold.

Karmen Meyer 6/2/25 Karmen Meyer 6/2/25

Diptych Project #7

the Louvre

Huge dark doors are closed, but windows reveal rows of beautifully carved columns and ceiling just outside. Photographed on 35mm film, Kodak Portra 160. — **CLOSED DOOR.** there is so much beauty out there, if you can open the doors. Photographed on Portra 160.

Inspired by Michael Angelos "the Creation of Adam", a woman's hand reaches up to the white hand of an unkown marble statue. Light leaks cause yellow glowing as if an ethereal halo surrounds the scene. Photographed on 35mm film, kodak Portra 160. — **REACHING.** We all know the painting this photo is inspired by. The surprise little light leaks only add the to celestial feel. Reaching for that spark of connection, inspiration, belonging. Photographed on Portra 160.