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ABOUT THIS SHOT: These are some really HOT bricks. Once we'd finished salting, our teacher shut off the gas and then took down some of the bricks from the front to crash cool the kiln (still really hot though.) He laid them down and I got some pictures of them. Sorry about the haze in the bottom corner, I was screwing with the flash again, but I got the red glow I wanted.

This is a series of informal shots that I took at a work group for a salt firing where I've been taking pottery lessons.

This kiln is dry laid brick, brought up to about 2,800 degrees (if memory serves, I might be off by a couple hundred.) When I arrived in the evening it had been heating up since two evenings before and was ready to be salted. Basically, you pour in the salt and the intense heat vaporizes it and breaks it down into sodium and chloride, which, in layman's terms, glazes the pots. It's not nearly so simple and our teacher explained it more thoroughly, but I could never repeat it with any accuracy so I won't.

The quality of all these shots isn't too great since I don't have much control over my digital camera and the lighting was odd.

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ABOUT THIS SHOT: These are some really HOT bricks. Once we'd finished salting, our teacher shut off the gas and then took down some of the bricks from the front to crash cool the kiln (still really hot though.) He laid them down and I got some pictures of them. Sorry about the haze in the bottom corner, I was screwing with the flash again, but I got the red glow I wanted.

This is a series of informal shots that I took at a work group for a salt firing where I've been taking pottery lessons.

This kiln is dry laid brick, brought up to about 2,800 degrees (if memory serves, I might be off by a couple hundred.) When I arrived in the evening it had been heating up since two evenings before and was ready to be salted. Basically, you pour in the salt and the intense heat vaporizes it and breaks it down into sodium and chloride, which, in layman's terms, glazes the pots. It's not nearly so simple and our teacher explained it more thoroughly, but I could never repeat it with any accuracy so I won't.

The quality of all these shots isn't too great since I don't have much control over my digital camera and the lighting was odd.