Four Way Foot Bridge

Waterlily in Rain

Rain on Siberian Iris Leaves, Monarda Behind

Footprints and Seagull Tracks

After posting all of the hanging #DHMCShow photos, I'll indulge in posting some of the ones I hoped to hang but didn't.

Very slowly recovering from Covid and with a malfunctioning $5000 printer, I had head-winds while prepping

This image printed great. I had printed it on roll paper that had a strong curl. I put it under a pile of prints to straighten before I mounted it, and I just couldn't find it again. I found it now.

Waterlily After Rain

Going back in time to when I was younger, a few weeks ago, I missed this one in the L->R sequence. I went to see the #DHMCShow yesterday while in town and saw two I missed. #35 here.

Funny, the way I see compositions, but my favorite things about this are not the subject (flower) or secondary subject (rain on leaves) but the negative space between the leaves, all silvery.

Connecticut River Rock Puddles and Autumn Foliage Reflection

The 44th photo hanging in my current #DHMCShow. We have jumped across a hall to a new panel This big frame, 16 x 40 inches, takes up the whole next panel. It's printed on watercolor paper.

This is pretty straight up. People often think I've messed with it a lot, but no.

Cavendish Gorge, Rock with Hole, Icicles

On to a new panel and the 40th photo hanging in my #DHMCShow. I do not believe I've posted this one. From early 80s 4 x 5 film. Pretty big here, in a 22 x 28 frame, this is a much better print than I got in my darkroom days. I'm sure I have some silver prints of this in a box somewhere.

This rock long since scoured out of there by flood events.

Sunflower Opening, Jewelweed Behind

The 37th print hanging in the #DHMCShow. I realized I hadn't ever put this on my site, and so it also wasn't included on the page of all the photos in the show, which is here: https://www.lehet.com/photo/dhmc.html

I've posted this here before

White Peony and Two Alliums

Ferns by Birches

The 33rd photo in the #DHMCShow, printed and framed small, like the last one. This one is on etching paper for the bokeh to use the paper texture.

Oak Leaf and Hemlock Sprig in Spring Ice

We're onto a new little panel in the #DHMCShow, with a few intimate images. This, the 32nd print, is small here (I always print it small). It has remained one of my favorite photos for years, though I suspect not everyone is drawn to it or gets it. I have made many thousands of similar exposures, but I don't know, this one.

Fiddlehead Fern and Daffodils

The 27th photo in my currently haning #DHMCshow.

I like to print on Canson Edition Etching paper when it works with tones, textures, color gamut. Sometimes it doesn't work and I need harder paper, and then sometimes I take the texture even further with watercolor paper.
Well, this one really works on etching. It's an image that is so much nicer as a print than on screen, the way the texture is on the blurred yellow.

Three Closed Siberian Iris Buds, Centaurea Behind

The 26th photo in my hanging #DHMCshow. I think I've posted this here before? This was the poster image for a show of spring images I did at Long River Gallery in Vermont a year and a half ago. Made a good poster.

Working with the new printer, new software (Qimage One) and some new knowledge, testing colors. According to Photoshop some colors here won’t print properly on any paper. So I tried different “rendering intents" etc to see if I could tell if those colors got clipped.

No problems. It was on Canson Edition Etching, so the blur goes off into paper texture. I think it's really beautiful. Wish I had hung it in #DHMCshow, but maybe a gallery will take it.

23rd photo L->R in my #DHMCShow.

Rain on a Hosta Leaf

This is the only black and white photo in a panel of color images. While the last panel featured spacious and spacey landscapes, these are all more intimate. So it fits.

The last panel was a world full of air you could wander lost in. This panel, the world comes to kiss you. You can kiss it back.

I got some fancy and expensive printing paper, a traditional Japanese mulberry and rice paper that shows the threads of fiber in the texture. From what I've found in reviews, it might work best with lower contrast images and pastel colors. I'm so excited to try it, but also scared because it's expensive. I mean, it’s all expensive anyway. But I'm brave with normal expensive paper. Maybe this one…

Waiting for the printing room to heat up.

Fog After Ice Storm, Vermont

This is the 17th photo in my currently hanging #dhmcshow. This is an example of needing to shake loose from my concepts and really look -- at a print. And keep working on it even after I've “got it.” I printed this some years ago and thought it was good. For years. Only when I was considering it for this show I scrutinized it hard I realized that print sucked. Much better now, matches the screen.

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Garlic Scape with Dew

Garlic Scape and Dew Drops

#johnlehetphoto #blackandwhite #garden #vintagelens

(not edited, might do something with it later)

Row of Willows, March

Got an email a couple of days ago. Someone found a framed print of this in a thrift shop, quite thrilled with the find and looked me up. It's a silver gelatin print. I used to print it mirror image from the way I print it now. I'm not sure which one was real. That line of trees no longer exists. Otherwise, the tones are pretty much the same. The modern pigment print is a rather better. I used to print the film to Agfa Portriga paper.