Littoral Drift – Lens Culture

Meghann Ripenhoff's Littoral Drift #38 2013 Unique Cyanotype (by SF Camerawork, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED via Flickr).

Inky blues, frothy whites and occasional flecks of gold make up the color spectrum in Meghann Riepenhoff’s breathtaking camera-less cyanotypes..Littoral Drift—a geological term used to describe the transportation of sand and gravel by wind-driven waves—is Riepenhoff’s “collaboration” with the landscape and the ocean, in which she opens herself to chance and embraces the textures of nature into her working process…..