Dye Transfer Prints

My dye transfer prints are all made using original Kodak dye transfer paper and dyes. The paper stock is double- or triple-weight fiber base with an air-dried F surface. The prints have oversize white borders around the image area, and I title and sign the prints in archival ink under the image.



more from "Jewels of Kilauea" & "Hawai'i"



click here for a full-screen image

Tortoise Shell Pahoehoe and Ferns, HI ~ 2002

Silver dapples the black pahoehoe, which is tinted with subtle shades of blue and brown. Newly sprouted ferns are among the first plants to colonize fresh pahoehoe; their electric yellows and greens present a striking contrast. (430K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 7"


click here for a full-screen image

Sealing Wax Palm, HI ~ 2000

The sealing wax palm is named for the brilliant red stalks it sends out, reminiscent of the wax used to seal documents. Intense reds butt up against equally intense greens in the shady tropical light. (307K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

O'helo Sprouting from Pahoehoe, Mauna Ulu HI ~ 2002

Arranged like some kind of studio still life, a young o'helo bush sprouts in vivid reds and lime-greens from beneath a boulder of pearly opalescent and gold pahoehoe. Much favored by Pele, o'helo is another early colonizer of Hawai'i's lava flows. (463K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Competing Ferns, May '73 Lava Flow HI ~ 2002

A cluster of ferns in greens, reds, oranges, yellows, and browns springs forth from a crevice in the charcoal black pahoehoe from the May 1973 lava flow. (414K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 7.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Teak Roots, Foster Botanical Garden HI ~ 2000

Teak roots look almost metallic in their dark brown-black, shiny bark, spotted with green lichens. They sprawl gracefully across the tanbark of the botanical garden. (303K JPEG)

Image area: 7.5" x 9.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Heliconia, Foster Botanical Garden HI ~ 2000

Heliconia blossoms in rosy spikes, hidden in the cool blue-green shadows of the startlingly verdant fronds. The yellow blossoms are nearly hidden in their crimson sheaths. (262K JPEG)

Image area: 9.5" x 7.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Kahili Wild Ginger, Kilauea Iki Trail HI ~ 2002

A wild ginger stalk blossoms in sunny yellow with crimson tongues, amid the jade and emerald tones of tropical ferns. (303K JPEG)

Image area: 8" x 9.5"



Comet Halley ~ 1986



click here for a full-screen image

Comet Halley Against Milky Way ~ 1986

Comet Halley glows in cool cyan, set against the backdrop of the Milky Way in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region of the sky. The Milky Way provides a stunning backdrop in smoky blues and browns, sparkling with the fiery nebulae and blue white diamondlike star clusters. The Galactic cente is shrouded in dust, near the upper left corner. (459K JPEG)

Image area: 11" x 9"
Image area: 18" x 15"


click here for a full-screen image

Comet Halley ~ 1986

Comet Halley displays yellowish dust and blue ion tails that emerge from the turquoise coma. Faint red hydrogen nebulae color the star-dappled background of the Milky Way. (479K JPEG)

Image area: 11" x 9"
Image area: 18" x 15"



Aurora Borealis ~ 1986



click here for a full-screen image

Green and Pink Curtains, Havre MT ~ 1986

Delicate auroral curtains painted in pale lavenders and lime greens glow in a starry sky over the Montana plains. (213K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Auroral Streamers at Havre MT ~ 1986

Like some luminescent summer storm, pale green streaks of auroral light fill the skies over the lights of Havre, Montana, which tint the clouds with a sullen brown glow. (229K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Mantle and Streamers over Havre MT ~ 1986

An auroral mantle glows like mother-of-pearl in subtle oranges and yellows and greens over the city lights. Streaks of jade auroral light look like falling rain. (213K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Green Auroral Curtain, Havre MT ~ 1986

A deep green auroral curtain shimmers with fine folds, bends, and lines of yellow-white luminescence behind the telephone poles. (197K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Auroral Flames, Havre MT ~ 1986

Aurora flares to the sky like some ghostly fire, shaded with oranges, reds, and nacreous whites fringed with green. (193KJPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Green Auroral Band, Havre MT ~ 1986

An intense emerald and azure band of aurora is fringed with violets and reds in a starry sky. (197K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Rayed Auroral Band, Havre MT ~ 1986

A striped auroral curtain hangs in the sky behind the clouds, red-magenta streaks abruptly transitioning to cyan and turquoise. (188K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Auroral Band behind Phone Lines, Havre MT ~ 1986

A delicate curtain of light in oranges and pale soft greens hangs in a starry sky over the deep brown fields of Montana. (118K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Auroral Ribbon Behind Clouds, Havre MT ~ 1986

An incandescent river of light, brilliant with yellows and soft greens, appears to weave through the clouds in the starry skies above the telephone poles. (221K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Auroral Streamers Through Clouds, Havre MT ~ 1986

Orange, bronze, and lemon light seems to pour from the sky behind the clouds hovering over Havre, Montana. (221K JPEG)

Image area: 10" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Auroral Glow & Stratus Clouds, Havre MT ~ 1986

Auroral glow fills the sky with light, luminescent with pinks, yellows, and the most delicate greens, mixed with sweeping streaks of clouds. (197K JPEG)

Image area: 9.5" x 8"



Geology



click here for a full-screen image

Petrified Forest Ravine, AZ ~ 1978

The eroded landscape of the Petrified Forest is awash with subtle blues, violets, and oranges, accented by the dusky green scrub and the bronze hues of petrified wood logs. (438K JPEG)

Image area: 15" x 19"


click here for a full-screen image

Canyon de Chelly Plateau at Sunset ~ 1978

Canyon de Chelley glows at sunset. The grazing sunlight tints the landscape brilliant purples, reds, and oranges, set under a clear blue sky. (332K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 13"


click here for a full-screen image

Lehmann Caves Stalactites & Stalagmites, Great Basin National Park ~ 1988

Stalactites and stalagmites shine like sculptures in bronze, weathered to a fine patina with hints of gold and green. (340K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 15"


click here for a full-screen image

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, OR ~ 1990

The rusty browns, yellows, and brick-reds of these stony columns remind one of ancient castle ramparts. Gray-green scrub in the foreground and the desert's dark blue sky and brilliant white and grey clouds provide chromatic and textural contrast. (254K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 6.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Mt. Adams from Windy Ridge, Mt. St. Helens WA ~ 1990

Barely ten years after the eruption, purple lupine and green scrub begin to grow in a sear tan and gray landscape, with a cool blue-white Mt. Adams hovering in the background. (225K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 6"


click here for a full-screen image

Shattered Tree Trunks at Mt. St. Helens WA ~ 1990

A steamy Mt. St. Helens looms over an eroded brown and green landscape, littered with the pale bare trunks of the trees felled by the monumental explosion. (250K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 8"


click here for a full-screen image

Spirit Lake and Mt. St. Helens WA ~ 1990

Cold, blue-grey Spirit Lake catches the sun in the midst of a log-littered landscape painted in tans, dark browns, and siennas. Scattered new growth offers small accents in dark greens in this otherwise foreboding landscape. (201K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 6.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Promontory, Painted Desert National Park AZ ~ 1978

Overlooking the Painted Desert, this cross-bedded sandstone outcrop shines in the midday desert sun with delicate hues of greys, tans, and browns. Bits of yellow-green and gray scrub provide an accent to the ruddy landscape in the background. (422K JPEG)

Image area: 18" x 15"



Various and Sundry



click here for a full-screen image

Acacia and Streetlamp, Campbell CA ~ 1975

Mercury streetlamps make the naturally vivid greens of the acacia tree fluoresce with eye-popping emeralds, jades, and incandescent yellows. (426 JPEG)

Image area: 14" x 9.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Mossy Granite Outcrop, N. Ontario Canada ~ 1980

Green and yellow-orange mosses gain a foothold. Their base of operations is icy blue and lavender granite, striped with ripples of soft indigo and pink. (414 JPEG)

Image area: 15" x 10.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Ft. Peck Dam Spillway, MT ~ 1980

After dusk the dam's spillway catches the twilight sky, picking up tones of purples, pinks, and blues in a marbled pattern. (229K JPEG)

Image area: 15.5" x 18.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Interstate Bridges on Columbia River, OR ~ 1990

Forest greens and deep cyan sky and water contrast with the soothing greens and tans of the Interstate Bridges that connect Oregon and Washington. (266K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 8.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Interstate Bridges, Portland OR ~ 1990

The sea-green girderwork of the Interstate Bridges shines brightly in the deep blue summer sky of Portland. (221K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 6.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Stand of Stripped Trees, Mt. St. Helens WA ~ 1990

Desolate brown and black trees stand, dead and bare skeletons, in front of a ghostlike Mt. St. Helens, rendered in the palest blues and whites. (238K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 7"


click here for a full-screen image

Mud and Horsetails, N. Ontario Canada ~1980

In the light of the setting sun, horsetails glow with almost luminescent shades of yellow-green, as they grow out of the rich brown-maroon mud of the stream bed. (389K JPEG)

Image area: 12.5" x 10"


click here for a full-screen image

Aspens in First Snow, Great Basin National Park ~ 1988

Aspens still carry their bright and pale green and yellow leaves, made brilliant by sunlight, as a blanket of new snow dappled with fallen leaves covers the forest ground. (471K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 14.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Century Plants in Bloom, AZ ~ 1978

Century plants send up yellow and pale green stalks amid blue-grey scrub, emerald and forest-green firs, and pale purple sedge. (479K JPEG)

Image area: 18.5" x 14"


click here for a full-screen image

Lake Shasta and Mount Lassen, CA ~ 1991

An extraordinarily clear day at Lake Shasta, when the water levels were extraordinarily low, revealed glowing orange, brown, and tan bands on the banks of the reservoir. The water reflected a near-indigo sky in contrast with dusty cyan light near the horizon, whose color suffuses Mount Lassen in the distance. Green forest completes the pallete of rich colors in this photograph. (422K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 14.5"


click here for a full-screen image

Swordplant Against Cemetary Wall, Mission Dolores, S.F. CA ~ 1992

A cool gray cement wall provides a backdrop for a twisted swordplant, resplendent in shades of dusky green, fringed by pinkish-browns and hints of yellow. (356K JPEG)

Image area: 15" x 19"


click here for a full-screen image

Smiley Seal, Steinhart Aquarium, S.F. ~ 1980

A floating, friendly visitor, the seal's forehead is illuminated by just a bit of warm light that contrasts with the cool greens and cyans of the watery world in which it dwells. (258K JPEG)

Image area: 19" x 15"

  
copyright © 2012 by Ctein. All rights reserved