Time Tunel Play

First thing I did when I came to live in The Netherlands was to buy a digital camera. By then, it was a Canon Ixus 2 Megapixels. Powerful isn't it? My current baby has 21 Megapixel...

But since then we stated collecting images. Not only the digital ones but also the ones on negatives. By that time, we could develop and ask to burn them into a CD. Because of this strange habit, we have now 25.285 images on the hard disk.

There is also a backup, that I will remind to keep with me when we go on vacations so I don't risk all MY PRECIOUS collection.

What do I do with so many images?

Well, I discovered a new therapy: go back and pick a date, one holiday or one event and work on the pictures. Give them another processing, another color, a fresh view. I can spend hours doing it.

The picture on this post is from July 2004, taken on slide film (don't remember the name any more). It was very sharp, but the background was a bit overpowering: it was far too light, distracting from the flowers. Also on the original, the texture of the flower was not so evident, was more a kind of distraction. The subject was not very well defined.

Now, looking at the picture, I decided to make the subject more clear. O darkened the background and removed the color, to show more of the flower's texture.

One sign that I was not fully aware of what I was seeing into the frame is the right side on the frame: I cut a piece of the flower... errr... developing, still developing consciousness into the frame.

For that, I have a nice exercise. I sit down, RELAX,  and visualize that I am going to limit my world to what I see on the frame. Then I walk around the house, pointing the camera to any object and everything, being aware of the frame and methodically examining what the frame shows to me: look at each corner, see what is in there. Eliminate the excess. It's a nice exercise!