Rough scans of collodion dry plates taken at the Yucatan workshop held by Scully and Osterman. These kinds of plates have very high resolution and a lot of Dmax, so are a bit tough to scan properly. When printed with a process they were intended to be used with (e.g., salted paper printing) a lot of the artifacts (e.g., fibers that landed in the varnish while it was drying) will not show up. They will, however show up here. This was the second plate taken on the first day, which was in Aké. The Mayan complex we were supposed to shoot was unexpectedly closed that day, but between the nearby factory ruins and a couple small Mayan structures on the same property (and not in the government-managed complex) were available to us. This one, excavated but not really cared for (seems to have been somewhat reconstructed, not particularly carefully, and has been allowed to grow a tree from the crevices of the upper stones) made for a nice scene. The breeze was blowing, so there's a lot of tree movement. The exposures that day were a bit shorter than they probably needed to be; Mark's theory is that the (lime-heavy) tap water we were using to wash the plates after pouring may have carried off a bit more silver than expected, thus rendering the plates a bit less sensitive. We extended exposures the next couple days once we discovered this.