Ever since I was 8 I was obsessed with an interest in anything related to Leonardo da Vinci. I remember getting some pastels as a gift for my birthday. I started by copying a red da Vinci self-portrait. 

Many years later, on November 1994, I had the opportunity to photograph Robertson Davies. I took advantage of his look and beard to rip off my own da Vinci.

For years I have used the works of artists and photographers as inspiration for my photographs.

Looking at the past to defy the present

Tonight, as I was not quite sleepy enough, and having this now three-week long obsession to use my scanner as a camera, I wondered what would happen if I scanned my 1958-purchased first camera, a Pentacon-F, with some sort of negative on the back on the film plane with with back open. 

Blog with links to all my weeks-long  obsession of scanner as camera.

My subject, sometime around 1977, was a red haired Canadian Pacific stewardess (that’s what they were called then) who was wearing a lovely blue dress. The camera I used was the Pentacon in this scan.

After a few faulty efforts I think I was able to get a fair result. I then thought it would be nice to mate the scan with a good reproduction of her and place them here side by side.

As I was ready to write this blog I stared at my combination and realized that here I have my own version of La Gioconda!