In this season's summer bonus episode, you may be surprised to hear that the lowly vintage ferrotype plate still receives some academic and scientific research, 150+ years after its introduction. My guest, Dr. Corina Rogge, is the Director of Conservation at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas and has went where few have dared to go in the research of the tintype. Cory has written multiple articles on the constituents of vintage varnish and the recipes and manufacturing methods of japan plates. Listen in and discover that sometimes, what we read in the historic texts doesn't always line up with reality when in comes to tintype recipes.

You may have heard the historical announcement "One if by land, two if by sea". Before Paul Revere made his midnight ride through the country side, he crafted with silver. My next photographic duo, based in Revere, Massachusetts, are also artists of silver, but use it to capture light. Maureen Feeley and Dave Caramello were looking for something to keep them occupied during the pandemic and by chance saw examples of wetplate collodion online. Learning the process over FaceTime, they opened up Evoke Tintype to create portraits and viral TikTok posts using the wetplate process.

We're heading to the home town of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in this episode to talk about mixing collodion and vinyl records. Experimental collodion artist Greg Martin has been shooting for years and constantly pushing the boundaries of the art with new mediums and trying out the funkiest lens you've probably never thought of. Listen in as we chat about all things collodion, taking or making images and get an insider's view of the annual Tintype Jamboree.

In this episode, we get to check in with another tintypist who, along with her trusty travel companion Rosemary, decided to spend more time on the open road capturing not only the beauty of nature but portraits of those she meets along the way. Developing a love for analog photography in high school, Megan Karson added the wetplate collodion process to her film photography work and continues to use this process as she travels the country.

In this week's episode, we learn that starting down one career path doesn't necessarily mean that's the road you're stuck on. Moving from culinary school to the tattoo shop, tintypist Matthew Stella, decided to give wetplate photography a try when a friend asked him to do "something involving photography" at a tattoo convention. Starting with just the basics, he was able to pick up the art and decided that maybe another career changeup was past due.

Is there a place for collodion in today's world of photography? This week's guest thinks so and decided being a teacher, FAA drone pilot and professional commercial photographer wasn't enough. While familiar with Victorian photography and the works of famous Civil War photographers, Jon Haverstick decided to reach out to modern day wetplaters during the COVID-19 shutdown and developed a love for this vintage process. Sit back and learn about Jon's work on sci-fi western promos, spirit photography and what it's like to hold photographic history that's been to the moon and back.

Let's mix this batch up - engineer dad + a creative background in music, painting, film photography + love of the old and vintage items + a chance trip to a Gettysburg tintype studio. What comes out of this mixture is Chicago based photographer Jennifer Froula Weber. Listen in as we talk about her dreamy wetplate collodion images, her creative process and how Berber the bear became her first sitter.

In ages long past, before the dawn of the smartphone and the instant image, a different kind of magic unfolded. Photographers embarked on quests with cumbersome contraptions of brass and glass. They wrestled with this strange alchemy, capturing the fleeting moments of a world yet unfrozen.

Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it.

We didn't quite make it to that place with collodion, but we came close. In this episode, we talk to another pioneer - a Godfather of sorts - who continued this quest and joined a small fellowship of others seeking out the ways of wetplate.

That's enough reference to the Tolkien classic, for now, but Brian Scadden of Carterton, New Zealand, has a lot to talk about when it comes to collodion and how being isolated from the rest of the wetplate world didn't stop him becoming a dedicated practitioner and teacher of the process.

So grab your pipe, settle in by the campfire, and prepare to hear how the search for the wisdom of collodion turned into an obsession rivaling that of Gollum.

In this week's episode, we get to talk to a relative newcomer in the collodion world that's already making a name for herself. Currently residing in Fargo, North Dakota, Kary Janousek wanted to learn more about the process after seeing it first hand for a set of promotional images for her other business - vintage hat repair and sales. Kary shares more on her millinery work and how a love of vintage things brought her to wetplate.