A Double Blue
Sunday, October 29, 2017
I often say in Spanish, “El diablo más sabe por viejo que
por diablo,” which translates that the devil knows more not because he is the
devil but because he is old.
Bronwen Marsden (alas she now lives in Singapore) posed
for me for at least three years. She was keen on anything that would push our
envelope. We even attempted (I failed!) at taking photographs that would make
her less attractive. She was so beautiful that she was constantly told by men
and women about this. Even one day when as an extra for a film, during a break,
she was reading the Odyssey by a pool and a man came to tell her about her
beauty. She was simply fed up.
What you see here is an accident in which this old man (and
not the devil!) sees something and follows through with previous knowledge. The
almost two identical b+w negatives somehow were in their plastic sleeves as you
see here. They were not in separate sleeves. And one of the negs was reversed
and over the other one. So I scanned them. The colour happens because I scan all
b+w negatives in RGB (red, green, blue). I then add blue and cyan to get this
cool colour.
