Figure 1 – On the Cordingly Dam – A Tribute to Adamson and Hill. (c) DE Wolf 2014.

Despite my hunt for early fall colors my first attraction to the Cordingly Dam at Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts was for black and white.  When I took the image of Figure 1 my thoughts were still with Adamson and Hill.  So this is kind of a tribute to these calotype pioneers.  I stretched the exposure, but was not brave enough to go to the point where the water becomes a luscious blur.  Still I was thinking the kind of rich sepia toning that goes with a calotype or with a platinum palladium print.  The effect, for me at least, was still pretty dreamy. It was just what I was after.