When I was in Crested Butte, Colorado this summer, I went into a gallery that had a very beautiful photo of the mountain town of Colorado at night. It looks like the photographer did some HDR photography. (HDR stands for High Dynamic Range imaging. If you want to learn more about that, visit Wikipedia.) This photo was amazing because all of the lights of the town created a beautiful glow in the night sky. The man running the gallery said that the photo was printed on aluminum.

I had never heard of such a thing. But, when I got accepted to be able to do an art show, I thought I just HAD to try it. Printing on aluminum sounded very fun. I ordered the image from Bay Photo. It turned out just a little bit darker than what I had anticipated, but it still looked lovely.

This photo was taken on the edge of Hazard, Nebraska. Hazard boasts a population of 66 people. This photo was taken after the ice storm of 2006. The ice coated everything pretty thickly. You can see here that the rocks by the train tracks were coated over in ice and looked very shiny.

4 comments

1. Unknown on January 8, 2011 at 5:53 PM

   This is beautiful and who knew you could print on aluminum. Hmmm...interesting. I saw your post in the forums. I love your photos.
   Tammy

    
2. Kelly on January 16, 2011 at 12:51 AM

   I have wanted to try this!

    
3. Anonymous on January 28, 2011 at 3:41 AM

   Il semble que vous soyez un expert dans ce domaine, vos remarques sont tres interessantes, merci.
   
   - Daniel

    
4. mansaprints on May 24, 2013 at 7:20 AM

   This is very beautiful post by you.What a nice idea about photo printing on aluminum.
   Printing on aluminum