Over the past few years I’ve given a few guest lectures at Lomond secondary school in Helensburgh. The topic has tended to be on documentary photography and multimedia, however on seeing the big green wet plate wagon the art teacher Barbara Croft asked me in to do a workshop with her and a few of her sixth year students, and also her niece Morven who is about to study at Glasgow School of Art.

It was such a riot! I set the UV lights up in the art department and parked the van at one of the double doors to the school. We then piled in and out of the van – to and from the art department – as stunned pupils and teachers alike wondered what the hell we were up to. I won’t tell if you don’t Barbara : – ))

It was so cool to see others amazement at the wet plate process – and share the magic of watching the plate come to life in the fix. I think it’s safe to say we all had a good day!! 🙂

Here are a few of the demo plates I made: –

And then some of the photos and plates that the students and Barbara made. Everyone made really good plates!!

Barbara – it’d be great if you could send me scans of all your plates so that I could post them properly………………………..

Thanks a million for a great day! 🙂