I’m starting to work on the flora in my studio. These will all be wet collodion negatives. No redevelopment, straight from my Sutton recipe and 1:30 development time. Controlled north light.
The Yarrow plant in a handmade Ute pottery bowl made by L. Posey (Ute Potter). I’m not sure why this is showing the black not clean, it is very clean in real life ;-) Palladium Platinum print on Revere Platinum paper.
Yarrow, Achillea millefolium, and its North American varieties were used in traditional Native American herbal medicine by tribes across the continent. The Navajo considered it to be a "life medicine", chewed it for toothaches, and poured an infusion into ears for earaches. The Utes made tea from this plant and take it internally for weak and disordered stomachs.