I am concentrating on presenting my digital work from approximately 2003 to the present. Pre ’03 my work back to the early Nineties is film-based, mostly transparencies and some negatives.
The challenge of copying my slide and negative archives to exhibit is kind of a date-with-destiny two-step for me. I am always making excuses.
The majority of scanning equipment available now is flatbed. Many photogs are content to display their work taken from such scans. I am not. The quality isn’t there.
I do have an older, dedicated 35 mm scanner. But from day one it has been faster to pour cold molasses than churn out a well-scanned image.
Local large-format photographer Richard Kettle did a few drum scans for me. From that experience I learned that there are cars. And then there are cars for the 1%ers. Call me crazy. Call me Lamborghini. A drum scan of a transparency is the way to go.
However, using a drum scanner, one must argue cost versus the worth of the slide’s content with a banker.
Real world options are to put hands on a decent Nikon-dedicated transparency bulk scanner setup. This can be problematic. They aren’t as available as they once were.
And then there is the issue of Time.
Go back in Time, say a year or two or five, and what you captured remains contemporary.
Go back a little further and interest seems to hold. Almost.
But go back into a time when you saw the world differently, or your talent didn’t seem to be as sharp as it is today and it’s a different story. “Huh?” or “Well, that’s interesting …. sort of,” is not how you want to be making your selections for presentation.
Of course, wait a few years until whatever you shot back in the day is so old school, it’s all a giggle and you can’t go wrong dragging out even the “dogs” to show.
Every body likes looking at how strange we all were. But just how far back do you want to go before you start feeling like you are putting up a shingle labelled, “Memory Lane?”
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Then there is the other Time issue: finding enough of the damn stuff to do the scanning. I feel a yawn coming on just contemplating the work.
Additionally, considering that one is looking back and not forward, the whole process seems somewhat too end-of-Life flavoured for me.
So I might just hold the line at the turn of the century….
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Despite what I post, The Northumberland Project is not a record of the County, you will see architecture such barns, details such signs, etc. that are no longer present.
Life happens. Wood decays. Businesses move on. I am regularly surprised to find myself riding along on a side road and coming across a barn that is no longer there, or home that I have come to know by the toys in the yard or the washing on the line, where the family has moved on. Saddest is seeing a house-proud property slowly being reclaimed by Nature.
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Trigger warning for those who have a phobia about Cobourg (small town loyalties being what they are) The Northumberland Project is Cobourg-centric for a very selfish reason. Stumbling out of a warm bed, trying to get on the road before the sun has risen too high, the scenic Cobourg waterfront has been a default destination. Also it is the largest centre in the County.
And, really, full disclosure here … I have never gotten up two hours before sunrise to get into location for the perfect moment. Hell, no. Not on a day off. No way.
I leave the exemplary attitudes to people getting paid the big bucks. Or those with bold ideals. This is a labour of love, people. It has matured while driving over the same roads at different times during different seasons. Those times when I have attempted to see the world in a different light.
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