“The use of golden ink is, for me, a way to express the magic of the process of taking pictures,” says photographer Sandra Cattaneo Adorno to the Phoblographer in an interview about prints she’s made using gold ink. “I am not able to identify exactly the reasons why I frame a particular scene the way I do, but I am fascinated by how this gesture that appears almost automatic is deeply connected to my life and experiences. The immediacy with which the eye, the heart, and the finger align in a split second is, for me, still a big and wonderful mystery.” This is a process that Photoshop simply cannot do because it’s done in the printing stage. For people to truly experience the grandness of these images, they have to be seen in person — and that’s an inspiring thing for photographers of all types to remember.