"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others" ~Audrey Hepburn

For my last alternative process, I made a cyanotype. I used an image of Elizabeth's hands and cut around them to only have the blue from the cyanotype show through (as you can see, cutting around the fingers was a struggle, so I decided to leave that alone to show some grain of the original image (also, I did not want to risk the picture by painting on more chemicals and possibly messing up the whole thing)). I basically wanted to portray the story that hands give. Every human's set of hands have a story to it; a struggle; an adventure; a masterpiece. Here, Elizabeth's hands tell her story through her many pieces of jewelry, overall representing her creativity and individualism.




(The original picture was taken with an aperture of f/5.6, a shutter speed of 1/60 seconds, with a 18-55mm lens, with a Nikon D90.)