Because I live alone with two cats, I have lots of time in my hands. I like to putter in my oficina scanning my plants and writing these blogs (6467 including this one). Sometimes I linger in my thoughts with photographs I have taken in my past (thousands upon thousands) and today Anastasia Milne beckoned (indirectly) that I should do something different. 

In the last 3 years I have sandwiched two negatives (usually from the same session) and scanned them. I call the results “scanner sandwiches without mayonnaise”.

What makes this particular sandwich unique is that when I photographed Milne in the best room of the now gone infamous Marble Arch Hotel, I decided to use the sharpest film ever made. This was Kodak’s Technical Pan. I rated it at a very slow 25 ISO. For the photographs I used a Mamiya RB-67. But for just two (yes only two!) I loaded my German Gevabox camera and managed to take two exposures. I used the slow shutter setting of bulb.

I like the results. If I had more time my hands (the time of a younger than my 82 years) I could be at it for a long time. Fortunately my roses beckon for me to scan them.