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Good work on restoration!
Bravo

I like it a lot and the empt sky (without cloud) makes it even more like a lonely, abandoned ship.
Well done.

The second really exemplifies distance,..

To me, that is very special. Not often do I get moments as you have captured here.

thanks

Thanks! Yes I love the near-far types of opportunities I have here. Wide open spaces and all that.

Nice, were those taken right off the bike trails?  I'll have to check them out in August (if I survive the Kokopeli trail in May.)

Good luck on the Kokopelli! I hear it's beautiful. Still on my list...
This is very close to one of the trails, Alonzo's to be specific. Maybe 30 ft. off trail. I was not here by bike with my big camera kit for these. I don't like to ride with a lot of mm's much. Too much at stake and too heavy!
But I do ride this system from my house often. I had a nice ride out there today in fact.

Nice, were those taken right off the bike trails?  I'll have to check them out in August (if I survive the Kokopeli trail in May.)

The second really exemplifies distance,..

To me, that is very special. Not often do I get moments as you have captured here.

thanks

From The Week (this weeks Trump comics):

How about Photo Tex Adhesive Fabric:

Photo Tex Adhesive Fabric OPA Opaque

Tony

I'd recommend trying both matte black and photo black on phototex--  in my experience matte black usually gives you richer contrast, but it's more susceptible to smudging if it's touched or rubbed up against.  In either case it will pale (no pun intended) in comparison with a wallcovering material printed with latex, UV, or solvent inks.  If you have access to a laminator, or someone who could laminate for you you could print on a cheaper, flatter self adhesive material then run it with a semi-matte laminate which would protect it and also punch up the contrast a bunch

New content has been very light on LL. Unless it's stepped up, I'll let my subscription lapse. Is this the forum equivalent of quiet quitting by the forum owners?
Jeff Kott

SOLD

This is OT at this point, but I recently converted a 9900 to use all dye-based ink to do the same high gloss work--

I'm using this stuff which is identical to the Ilford to my eyes, and comes in 44" rolls: https://www.dotworks.com/premium-white-film.html

Honestly Ilford probably stopped making it because it was around the same time as all the large format printers started using pigment based inks which really dull the crap out of the surface...

The cool thing about converting the 9900 is that I can use a much bigger ink-set-- in this case I'm doing CcMmYKk + Red.  I was given this printer from another lab after the yellow channel started failing, so i'm using Ergosoft to remap all the channels to the remaining good 8 channels (the direct companion to yellow also died shortly after, which doesn't bode well for long term on this head, but for now I get to play around and make some beautiful weirdness)