This morning I woke up with a strange fever. It surprized me to be honest... But then I've always had issues with occasional fever from time to time. Oh well - it'll pass.

Spontaneous

While i was making dinner for myself, i added onions. There was that big piece of onion skin suddenly entangled in my fingers - and i thought to hang it up as a reminder, to do some close macro: You know; with the Olympus OM-1 together and the ED 90mm f 3.5 IS PRO MACRO lens... To do experiments with that onion skin.

I just wanted to see, where that could go ...

Well, here you got one example. It dries out pretty quick - and changes structure - as if the cells get turbo wrinkles. Then it can look almost like aluminum, kind of metal-like. (See next entry)

In the mean while... A3 printing

I will likely go printing up to A3+ with a Epson ET-8550 printer.

It appears to be a better mach for example when printing black & white (compared to the Epson ET-18100). While the colors are all dye based, but the black is pigment based (which in essence only get activated when you print on matte paper, and if you print documents). For me i think this is all OK with dye based colors - because I am not exactly in the business for gallery exhibitions. Yet the prints, especially when stored in darkness, last a long time.

To my surprise, even the prints i made from a super simple Epson printer from 1999, which faded extremely quickly in daylight - but in darkness, they are still OK (which surprised me, to be honest).

I found quite a lot of A3 paper in my home i have bought 20+ years ago - when i had a A3 printer (which clogged up and was just an extreme expensive waste of everything; both printer and super expensive inks in tiny cartridges). Well the EcoTanks from Epson appear to be rather reliable, have better colors, and generally also hold up well even in light (without direct sunlight). I have several on the walls, unprotected - and they look totally fine - and are meant for home use.

Of course if I go A3 and A3+ - i have to start thinking of framing my photos !

• Ink Photo paper also in A3 and A3+ size I bought back in 2002/03. All of them work excellent still !