Sweet Dreams
My only post today will be this reblog of my week 15 post at 52Rolls.net. It features a roll of expired film that I double exposed over images made perhaps 15 years earlier. The film is in terrible condition, but some of the images are very interesting. Head over there and have a look!
Week fifteen has produced serendipitous collages of the old and new; double exposures of recent images superimposed on a roll of expired and essentially dead film that was partly exposed a long time ago. In the image above I love how the kids clothes drain off down the lines of the branches of trees I shot in the cemetery, as well as the way it is divided up. To my eye, it is an exceptional image, even if unintended. I guess it fits into the current thing some people do of shooting a roll of film and sending it someone else to shoot again, but this time there is probably a 15 year gap.
A year or two ago I bought a bag of unexposed film, both 120 and 135, in a thrift store and have been slowly using it up. Some of the film has been a bit stale and produced…
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burnt embers 
Put it in a show or competition in the category “Accidental Art”, you would get the Medaille d’Or.
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Thanks Val! I am glad you like it.
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Wonderful serendipity.
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Hi Patrick – it did work out very well. Icing on the cake would have been if it were definitely my son. That would have been incredible.
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This must be one of your most striking pictures ever, even if unintentional and unrepeatable!
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Thanks Val. I feel that way about it too. And even more so because of the resemblence of that kid to my own son. And because it is overlaid with a cemetery shot, and ghostly in its own right.
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