Don Nelson's work focuses on the historic landscape in contemporary times, most often buildings disused or repurposed. Nelson has been a practitioner of alternative processes since 1983 using carbon transfer, platinum/palladium, kallitype, Vandyke brown, argyrotype, salt, and the now discontinued printing-out paper. Nelson began with large format cameras (12¿ x 20¿ and 7¿ x 17¿) but added digital negatives after a Dick Arentz/Mark Nelson Formulary workshop in the 1990s. Nelson continues to use both in-camera and digitally captured images in his work. He has shown work regionally. He is a co-author of Carbon Transfer Printing (Routledge, 2019) and authored a chapter on kallitype in Digital Negatives with QuadtoneRIP (Routledge, 2021). Nelson teaches carbon transfer classes at the Formulary/Workshops in Montana.

Preface Chapter 1. Introduction to Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype Chapter 2. Chemistry Supplies Chapter 3. Setting up the Brownprint Dimroom Chapter 4. Creating the Digital Negative Chapter 5. Paper selection Chapter 6. Mixing Chemistry for the Processes - Sensitiers, Developers and Toners Chapter 7. Making the Kallitype Print Chapter 8. Making the Vandyke Brown Print Chapter 9. Making the Argyrotype Print Chapter 10. Troubleshooting Chapter 11. Making the Toned Print Chapter 12. Finishing Prints Chapter 13. Contemporary Artists Appendix A - Kallitype Developer Quadtonerip Ink Definiton Files Appendix B - Gold Toner Quadtonerip Ink Definition Files Appendix C - Prehumidified Argyrotype Quadtonerip Ink Definition File Bibliography