the dark tent). While the plate is still wet, dip it into a solution that contains silver nitrate. The silver nitrate binds with the iodide and bromide to make a silver halide coating, which is ...

The edge of the photograph is black because the collodion did not cover the plate. Maybe one day I’ll build myself a portable darkroom and make wet plates in some southern forest. Or maybe I ...

and have been taking wet plate pictures every since. KR:How do you store all of the glass plates that you’ve shot? I can imagine dealing with plates is much more cumbersome than slide boxes!

That is: How have the landscapes changed — or stayed the same? The image you see below was shot in 2012 by wet plate photographer Todd Harrington. He retraced Gardner's steps at Antietam ...