Author: twrobbins

Solarography I

West

East

These images were made in paint can pinhole cameras. Black and white photo paper will develop a latent image when it is exposed for a very long duration. In this case the exposures were about a month long. I duct taped the rudimentary cameras to the antenna mast on my house. These images are from some time before 2014. The streaks in the sky are from the sun (east and west) and the moon (east). I have a dozen or so cans at the ready and plan to make some more images. I’m having trouble committing to subject matter. I need to choose places where the cameras won’t be tampered with.

Developing an idea

I ran across some images from when I was starting my Anatomy of a Weekend series. Initially I was determined to stick to traditional analog photography to produce the work. I contact printed individual 4×5 negatives, arranged the resulting prints into compositions and then photographed the arrangements again to make the final print. I had to do some retouching directly on the negatives to get rid of some shadows and imperfections. The final prints lost some detail and wound up being too high contrast for my liking. These first three images are the jumping off point back in 2011, and the images below are the of the finished and installed work.

We got the meats

I don’t have a purpose behind this post beyond tossing a few images of meat from my image archive. Food images have become a ubiquitous item on social media. Some of these probably made it onto one of my accounts. I have been looking through 20+ years of imagery and I grabbed a random sampling of meat photos. There are other foods, but grilling protein is a definate theme in my archive.