Cyanotype eclipse

Well, kind of. I made this at a cyanotype workshop in Dunblane, along with other cyanotypes, some of which may get blipped at a future date. This one uses tea bag paper and a glass trinket dish and I also did some using tracing paper as well as normal paper. Cyanotypes are the original "blueprints" and used one of the first photographic processes to create copies of documents and diagrams. The process was invented in the first half of the Nineteenth Century by John Herschel and was also used by Anna Atkins, a friend of the Herschel family, to record botanical specimens. It's still going strong nearly two centuries later, but now generally for arts and crafts. 

Here's a link to an article about cyanotypes on the Kew Gardens website: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/cyanotype-photography#:~:text=Cyanotype%20photography%20is%20a%20camera,white%20and%20Prussian%20blue%20images.