Ever get a feeling you're not supposed to get an image?

[Alastair Moore]

Twice now I've been to capture this chapel down the road from my house.

First time, light was nice and golden. Got my shot, developed it and discovered I'd made a double exposure on another scene I shot in Melbourne.

Tonight - light not quite as good as the first time but reasonable. Developed a few sheets tonight. All looking pretty good and I got to check the chapel shot and immediately thought, "I don't recognise those notches!"

Turns out I shot the chapel on one of the only two sheets of Ektachrome I happened to load last night. It kind of developed but perhaps needed another 5 minutes. I'm still going to scan it when it dries.

Maybe third time lucky.

[smbooth]

Normally I get that feeling when I keep looking at something and say I must photograph that, and when I get around to it , its gone ..

[Walter Glover]

and when I get around to it , its gone ..

Ain't that the troof!!

Nothing is so swift to change as the seemingly stagnant.

[Alastair Moore]

Normally I get that feeling when I keep looking at something and say I must photograph that, and when I get around to it , its gone ..

Yes, that's been the case recently too. In the workshops our office is in, there is this large rack of wooden blocks of different tones and shapes that were used for.. well, not entirely sure.. but kept on thinking I need to photograph it. They have only gone and put a glass front on it now.

[Walter Glover]

That can still work Alastair,

It is just the nature of the artefact that has changed it seems.

[Alastair Moore]

This was the chapel shot I "cross processed".



Extachrome (from 1997) f/16, 1/8, ISO 100. Processed in Rodinal for 12 minutes. Scanned negative.

I feel a bit like Sally Mann except there's probably not enough vignetting (or young children). The dirty scanner probably adds to it a little.