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My current work is inspired by what I see through the train window on my weekly commute from Beacon to Grand Central on Metro North’s Hudson Line which runs along the Hudson River in New York State. This current project relates to the historic pollution of the Hudson River, from steamboats and factories to the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline. The sequential images provide a record of my travels, with each image telling a story that goes beyond the moment I take the picture. I start with digital captures from my iphone, which I upload to my computer to make positives on transparency paper from which I make wet plate collodion ambrotypes. I then scan the finished plates into the computer to print on another surface. I work in series, and each series needs to be shown in a different way. I always consider a few options before deciding on a final presentation. This hand-ladened process takes the images away from the reality of photography, specifically color photography, to photographs that distort the images and bring the imperfections from the hand-applied emulsion to the surface, changing their meaning from representations of reality to memories of time and place. While most photographers make multiples, I photograph to make a unique object. I take my time selecting my images to decide how I want the finished product to appear. While I have been photographing these images for the past three years, I have just started to make them into ambrotypes. One idea for this series is to prin