Hello November. The beginning of the slow, grey, slither towards the shortest day, Winter Solstice, followed by the, equally grey, clamber out of the monotone abyss in January and February.
For a couple of years now I have been fascinated by altering greyish pictures like this using the classic photographic/radiographic physics of image making that I learnt in Darkrooms during the analogue years and then the digital manipulation of the digital, computer generated years. My career was more or less 50/50. All the excitement of the digital age saw dark rooms repurposed, new skills learned and to a degree the old knowledge abandoned. I have moved from wet processing ( chemicals in tanks) to digital and AI assisted image making.
As an aside I do wonder if the initials and concept of AI would seem less threatening if it was called Assisted Information rather than Artificial Information.
But I digress. Thank goodness my brain did not have its head completely turned by the digital age and carefully retained all my hard learned analogue photography/ radiology physics.
Hard earned because I was a reluctant student of all sorts of physics. I really had to knuckle down and learn it.
In my imagination my analogue skills are all neatly stored in my brain like this
This however is probably closer to the truth including the eighties wallpaper.
Now I could bore myself with all the analogue physics skills that take a poor and dull photograph, taken an hour before sunset.
Into a vibrant celebration of a late afternoon in November. Nobody needs to be bored by me on a Monday morning. Although I been asked to give a talk to an art group in the New Year.
Imagine skipping off to an art group for a social gathering with fellow artists and a woman turns up and starts talking about Physics!
This idea is going to need some finessing.
