Thursday, February 19, 2009

February 19



The idea to photograph a negative strip, render the digital photograph as a negative (thus making the negative strip in the picture a positive), and then post the results, is more difficult to accomplish than it looks. Above is my best effort at a visual double-negative.

The idea for this little bit of experimentation came to me like an avalanche. Literally. A bunch of photo envelopes from 2002 cascaded off my bookshelf onto the floor today, and as I was picking them up I noticed the inimitable Wilma von Shwink smugly smiling at me.

Fortunately, the avalanche was not large enough to bury me or the dog -- and the cat was out of the room at the time. So I can say this truthfully: No animals were harmed in the making of this entry.

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