One of the things I've been liking about this iphone business is the idea of the photo sketch. I have made a lot of work over the years and i look at it from time to time and think about how I would do it differently or how I would expand on the idea. The iphone and hipstamatic are allowing me to make new pictures out of these old pictures--sometimes they work--sometimes they don't. I have this picture I made a few years ago for a show I had with Harmony Motter. We took 200 feet of black and white film and shot it. No real plan, just...lets see what we can make and then have a show. I began to experiment with holding up my old photographs to light bulbs and re-photographing them. They transformed into these images with darker borders and vignetting....sort like what some of the lens/film choices with hipstamatic accomplish. I also began sandwiching two photographs together. I did most of this in a very crude way by just holding them with my left hand up to the light while taking the picture with my right hand using a nikon FM2 with 55mm micro lens...oh and holding my breath because the shutter speeds seldom ever got above 15th of sec. After awhile I got a tripod out, but this was even more difficult to use to get what I was hoping to. So this image was made of a picture I took in 1986 on film and another picture I took in 1995 or 6 also on film. Then retaken in 2003 or 4 on film and then rephotographed again in April 2012 with an iphone. I may try to do this again with a different lens/film choice in the app. Photograph by Richard Sayer