“Myself When Young...”
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Recursive self portrait(s) -- in an 'electronic infinity mirror' or Time Warp. It is definitely the result of a single digital take (no cutting & pasting). The very observant may notice an untidy clue as to how it was done...
(A dozen nominated faves to anyone who picks this up. To be fair, you would need to be familiar with iPhones and the Apple ecosystem..)
It is a single photograph of three things; an analogue photograph image, a mirror image of the photographer a 'split second' before the taking of the photograph, and the phone camera’s view of the photographic scene another 'split second' before that. That view is of the analogue photograph plus a yet earlier reflected view of the photographer about to take the photograph plus a yet earlier camera view of the photograph about to be taken...
(Got sick of trying to get this any better by hand... too many jelly-like degrees of freedom to control. Every tiny displacement of the phone camera 'echoes' or ripples down the time tunnel.)
Then and now. Tempus does indeed fujit. The red eye in the colour view is from an eye procedure, not booze. The B&W just reveals I was wearing contacts. It was shot by weak indoor lamplight, about 48 years ago, when I was trying to learn what my Olympus Pen FT could do (or what I could do with it anyway), and looking for a subject for a spool-finishing shot. The half-frame was incomplete. The image is from only a quarter of a full Ilford Pan F frame. iPhone and MacBook were the other tools involved in this single image capture.
It's all a mirror image, but that looks right to me. It's what I see when I shave (which evidently I have not always done).
“Myself When Young...”
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Recursive self portrait(s) -- in an 'electronic infinity mirror' or Time Warp. It is definitely the result of a single digital take (no cutting & pasting). The very observant may notice an untidy clue as to how it was done...
(A dozen nominated faves to anyone who picks this up. To be fair, you would need to be familiar with iPhones and the Apple ecosystem..)
It is a single photograph of three things; an analogue photograph image, a mirror image of the photographer a 'split second' before the taking of the photograph, and the phone camera’s view of the photographic scene another 'split second' before that. That view is of the analogue photograph plus a yet earlier reflected view of the photographer about to take the photograph plus a yet earlier camera view of the photograph about to be taken...
(Got sick of trying to get this any better by hand... too many jelly-like degrees of freedom to control. Every tiny displacement of the phone camera 'echoes' or ripples down the time tunnel.)
Then and now. Tempus does indeed fujit. The red eye in the colour view is from an eye procedure, not booze. The B&W just reveals I was wearing contacts. It was shot by weak indoor lamplight, about 48 years ago, when I was trying to learn what my Olympus Pen FT could do (or what I could do with it anyway), and looking for a subject for a spool-finishing shot. The half-frame was incomplete. The image is from only a quarter of a full Ilford Pan F frame. iPhone and MacBook were the other tools involved in this single image capture.
It's all a mirror image, but that looks right to me. It's what I see when I shave (which evidently I have not always done).