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KELP!
Picking your way through huge piles of seaweed that have washed up on shore after a big swell is a common experience for most Californian beachgoers. Our coastline is home to over twenty different species of kelp, which provide refuge, nutrition, clean air, and the occasional foot or fin trap for many creatures. But these forests are being decimated by pollution, over-fishing, sediment deposits, stronger storms, and warmer waters.
The kelp found washed up along our coastline is abundant in bromide, a material used in traditional analog processes to produce cleaner highlights and reduce fogging. A kelp extraction can work as a natural and local alternative to commericial KBr as long as it is reused from the shore, not foraged from its life in the sea.
Ilford 400 on 35mm
Processed using lemon peels and kelp