Platinum/palladium photographs are produced not by using commercial black and white materials, but by an alternative process where watercolor paper is hand coated with a hand mixed emulsion solution consisting of platinum and palladium salts (so called noble metals). These chemicals are sensitive only to ultraviolet light, so a traditional photographic enlarger is impractical. Instead, the image is exposed using an ultraviolet light source and thus, the negative must be contact printed on to the coated watercolor paper.

Platinum/Palladium is extremely stable, and also capable of rendering an image with greater tonal latitude than the traditional silver gelatin process. Consequently, the process offers images that are deeper, richer, and longer lived. Since each image is printed on a hand coated paper, no two are ever identical, but each one shows the beautiful characteristics of an old time printing process that can be cherished for generations.