In yesterday's post I wrote about 'alternative processes,' but didn't explain. Basically, before photoshop we did things in a darkroom. I spent hours in one or more of these. If I made an improper exposure I didn't just cry about it--I tried to make something out of it by going against the basic rules of chemical processing and tried something 'alternative.' This usually meant I would stop the development process with acetic acid(stop bath) and expose the paper to some light and then start splashing developer, stop and fixer all over it to see what would develop. I began getting reds and oranges in the b/w paper. It was pretty cool. I made something out of an image that would otherwise get tossed away. This picture above is a portrait of an old photography school buddy John Pickett. Everything was done correctly in the processing of this picture. The texture comes from double exposing in-camera. My camera had a special lever I could hold when I advance the shutter that kept the film from moving(other cameras you have to hold in the rewind button when you cock the stutter). I did my fair share of these back then. It was pretty neat because it was in large part change that you'd get an image of worth, but you had to really think it through because you couldn't look at the back of your camera and then make adjustments and shoot another frame. Sometimes it was hours or even days later before you'd see the results. When it was days later it was doubly great, because sometimes you'd forget taking something so it became a really great surprise when you saw the image and it worked out. I made a couple prints of this years ago on single weight fiber paper and sort of forgot about it until I stumbled on it again today. Another photograph from the shoebox archives of Richard Sayer.