As my daughter Hilary is helping me to sort through thousands of family photographs and others in two large plastic boxes, it has become overwhelmingly obvious that I have taken many photographs since I started with my Pentacon-F SLR in 1958. Because I worked mostly as a portrait photographer for magazines and newspapers portraits make up a lot of them.
But I did not always shoot portraits. Some years ago I had a show at the Pendulum Gallery in downtown Vancouver of very large photographs that I took of secret gardens (mostly in the roofs of tall buildings) in Vancouver.
We found a very large file of these photographs in an equally large courier envelope. I proceeded to throw most of them away. I put them in the garbage.
A few days ago as I was walking outside my duplex gate into
the lane I spotted the negative that I have scanned here. I like the idea of
the random saving of a negative I had thrown away. To me what makes the negative that much more interesting is that I used the now discontinued Kodak B+W Infrared Film.
I would like to point out here that having a good scanner is a good tool to immediately satisfy my doing what I am doing right now which is to write about it.
