Often in these blogs I quote my grandmother who told me that the devil knows more not because he is the devil but because he is an old man.
Back in that century and until my abuelita died in 1970 she was my mentor and I worshipped her. But now in this century anything old except is seen as suspect. Except perhaps antique cars, antiques and pristine but very old cameras that gearheads spend loads of money on. The relationship I had with my grandmother I do not have with my two granddaughters.
Since 2001 I have been scanning the plants of my garden. I call these over 3000 of them scanographs and I tell people I am a scanographer. When they look at my large framed ones and tell me how they like the photograph they immediately lose interest when I tell them that they are scanographs.
About five years ago I discovered the astounding possibilities of scanning (my Epson V700) two b+w negs, colour negs and slides together. The results are especially good when the chosen sandwiches (that’s what I call them) are from the same session.
Katheryn was one of the finest women I ever photographed for a span of several years. I have thousands of her pictures from the 16 sessions we had in my studio, UBC forest, West Van Lighthouse Park, Marble Arch Hotel Room 615, Wreck Beach and my bathtub. Today I decided to look at her pictures and I did these three sandwiches.
Because I am an old man of 83 I realize I don’t have too much time left to pursue these sandwiches.
Am I full?