Mirror Images
In February of this year, 2017, while with Curtis Salonick and The Uncommon Imaging Group, I really caught the mirror bug. I've made mirror images before then, but that was the start of turning it into an obsession.
Curt soon strongly suggested that I check myself into mirror rehab, and I've been holed-up in the digital darkroom avoiding the folks in white coats ever since. Shane McGeehan's admission of suffering this affliction for 18 months strangely spurred me onward.
In May I even went back to older files to redo some images with mirrors. The file naming was also improved. Eventually visualization (a technique whereby one can see what can be made in the darkroom by looking at the subject in the field) also improved, and started to occur even without a camera in hand.
Two interesting perks with these mirrors is that the images your mind contrives usually change when seen in different sizes and from various distances; they can also change as you scrutinize details within the image. These unintended bonuses add interactive enjoyment that continually renews with each view. These images are more than just colorful Rorschach tests; they are somehow symmetrically soothing, and so should be shared. If anyone would like a zip file or CD of a bunch, let me know. They're cool to run as a slideshow in the background or while you become engrossed. Enjoy whatever happens.
Whereas the mirror galleries will still be listed on the chronology pages, they henceforth will not be also added to the appropriate park page. They will be conveniently housed here for the similarly obsessed.
Galleries in chronological order of creation (most recent first):
FWD Mirrors February 9, 2022 |
Steamtown Mirrors August 12, 2020 |
Worlds End Mirrors February 19, 2020 |
Hollenback Cemetery January 3, 2019 |
Ye Olde Good Things November 28, 2018 |
Worlds End Mirrors October 24, 2018 |
Hamburg Mirrors September 29, 2018 |
Iceland September, 2018 |
Grey Towers, PA August 25, 2018 |
Wlkes-Barre, PA May 16, 2018 |
Ricketts Glen SP April 26, 2018 |
Frances Slocum SP April 21, 2018 |
TUIG - Home April 12, 2018 |
Concrete City January 18, 2018 |
Lehigh Gorge SP, PA December 20, 2017 |
Pinelands, NJ October, 2017 |
PA State Parks October 5, 2017 |
Rice Dam September 28, 2017 |
TUIG September 14, 2017 |
Ricketts Glen/Sullivan Falls September 1, 2017 |
Mirrors Intro Video August 19, 2017 |
Steamtown NHS August 10, 2017 |
Concrete City August 1, 2017 |
Little Rocky Glen July 25, 2017 |
Hickory Run/Lehigh Gorge July 13, 2017 |
Concrete City June 23, 2017 |
Hollenback Cemetery June 22, 2017 |
Ephrata Coister June 8, 2017 |
Batso Village June 1, 2017 |
Zion October 31, 2016 |
Bryce Canyon October 29 & 30, 2016 |
Steamtown April 16, 2016 |
Concrete City January 7, 2016 |
Steamtown NHS December 15, 2015 |
Solomons Creek December 7, 2015 |
Steamtown NHS October 7, 2015 |
Concrete City April 11, 2015 |
Luray Caverns March 21, 2015 |
Little Rocky Glen March 11, 2015 |
Reading Railroad 4 May 17, 2017 |
Reading Railroad 3 May 17, 2017 |
Reading Railroad 2 May 17, 2017 |
Reading Railroad 1 May 17, 2017 |
More Yard Work May 16, 2017 |
Trees and Mirrors May 6, 2017 |
Skyline Drive April 28, 2017 |
TUIG April 20, 2017 |
TUIG February 16, 2017 |
Please contact me with any suggestions, additions or omissions.