Above shows the original digital photo i took around midsummers eve back in June 2011 near sunset. Daniel and I visited Per-Olof on his heavy tugboat - tied along the Riddarfjärden bay. The colors where playfully creating endless shapes and fooling around with colors. Like an artiste of nature.

• Daniel and Per-Olof "PO", June 2011

I thought that was a good start

beginning to print those water color images. They turned out wonderful. The good thing about such motives is, that a slight color-cast isn't wrong - and you can't really judge it. Because it works both both as cooler nuances as it does when printed in warmer colors. However, the image color of the print is highly influenced from the various tungsten lights i have in our living room.

They are anything but neutral *LOL*

The prints

are pretty much alike the original digital photo you see high above in the main photo. So, i am pleased. It is an easy motive to print. The paper was Epson's premium glossy - i bought back in Dec 2002. There are higher end papers of course, and they cost a lot of money.

Today The Epson Premium glossy A3+ cost around 330 SEK to 420 / 29-36 € for 20 sheet. There are however all kinds of high quality and Art type of papers... which can cost 1400 SEK / 125 € / 20 sheet. Or even more

So. There is that.

I still have Epson's Archival Matte paper in the A3+ size from 2002 - with 50 sheets albeit they are thinner (190 gram) compared to the glossy paper i am using (255 gram). The matte version I have not used it yet but will soon do some tests with black & white... Perhaps even with color images, in order to see which motives work, and how the colors are translated onto a matt paper medium (I've never printed on matt paper in my life - therefore I don't know anything about the characteristics). I only know that when you have a printer with only dye based inks - the blacks are less intense. While if you have pigmented inks (or even only pigment based black ink), then there are better depths in the blacks

Oh well; One step at the time