!["Tintypist" t-shirt, custom Arizona license plate: "Tintype".](https://www.nomadicfrog.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/tintype_license_plate_006-Edit.jpg)
When I recently had to renew my license plate I decided to have some fun with it. This weekend I finally made a fitting photo to share.
For those not in the know: tintype images are, by nature, upside down and laterally reversed, which is why my license plate, Ford, and everything else is backwards.
For those now confused: I made my own t-shirt, with reversed lettering on the shirt, so that when I make a tintype of it the words render correctly.
![](https://www.nomadicfrog.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IMG_7233.jpg)
Now, if only I could get the state of Arizona to print my license plate backwards…