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| Left - Ona Grauer 2007 - Right 14 November 2024 |
I preach to deaf ears that combining the photographic technology of the last century with that of this one, results in cool new stuff.
In my case a lot of this combination involves using my scanner with film that I shot in the 20th with film that I shot a few days ago on 14 November 2024.
On that day when Ona Grauer came to my house she was about to be 49 on the next day. I first photographed her in 2007.
One of the supreme pleasures in being a portrait photographer is to photograph people more than once. It can be many times (as it was with Ona) and then when there is a long interval with no photographs.
Our session was perfect in that Ona advised me she did not want me to use filters or correcting lighting.
What you see here is a scanner sandwich of a negative I took of her in our first session in my corner of Robson and Granville studio. I sandwiched it with a Kodak Ektar negative I took last week.
It is my hope that we will shoot again in a darker room without flash. That is when the lovely matices (Spanish for color nuances) of b+w film will be in lovely display.
I the photographs I took this time I may have still been careful or simply Ona has escaped aging just fine.