Abandoned house calotype

Greenlaw's process calotype on Canson Vidalon Vellum paper.
Image is 3.25 x 5.5 inches on 3.75 x 6.25 paper.
Made with a Kodak 3A series II camera, LV 12, 8 minutes at f/8.

The scene is a little on the melancholy side, but I'm thrilled with the negative. There was a robin hopping around in the trees encouraging me as I made the exposure.

It has been carefully drying since Monday between changes of blotters, and there are no wrinkles at all. There does not appear to be any fog or staining, we'll see how it does for salt printing!

Quick digi-snap of calotype in a printfile sleeve on backlit white paper. In person it is a brighter reddish-gold color and the sky is more black. It was not completely flat and there is some keystoning, but I wanted to give an idea of the color and I don't own a transmissive scanner. It's really lovely held up to a window and reminds me more of a sheet of film than a paper negative!