form images of anything on cloudy or rainy days.
When usable daylight ceased, we retraced our steps
and gathered up the cameras hoping none had been
disturbed. Then, back at the barn we opened up our
cameras. Like cleaving geodes we were amazed by
the gift of the fully formed negatives within; like water
colors sketched by the sun. What we saw was no
less miraculous than when similar images were first
created by Talbot in 1835.
It was easy to drift away from
Talbot���s path and stray beyond.
While scanning the first tests of our
fragile negatives we were curious
to see how they might translate as
positive images. At the crossroads
of these two technologies we
discovered that digitally inverting
the photogenic drawing negatives
into positives revealed more than
Talbot could have ever dreamed.
Instead of projecting through the
visual noise of paper we were able to
see so much more by digitally capturing and inverting
only the surface of these camera images. Such is the
power of the electronic screen as opposed to paper.
Like recalling the memory of a dream, the positives
were smooth, familiar and yet complex. There was
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