Late September, 2024: Memory over Time, Time over Memory

After having finished editing these two photos, I've come to the conclusion that they remind me of the way that a specific memory changes over time, just as the historical record changes as years go by,  and that things which once originally seem ideal and solid  inevitably become abstract and faded. or perhaps more gently and elegantly stated,  MY INEVITABLE REFLECTIONS UPON THE PARADE OF ENTROPY.
Both images were created using a +10 year old Nikon D7100 dslr (35mm 'cropped-format' or 'dx') and a 24mm lens of even earlier vintage. The top image, in black-and-white with its' magnificent  doubravatone finish, is a seemingly 'simple' in-camera, traditional, multiple (triple) exposure. The color image below is an in-camera 'image-overlay' of an in-camera triple exposure and an in-camera double -exposure. The D7100 produces 24 mb RAW files.These reproductions here of course are much smaller jpegs, by necessity.

Triple-Exposures (August 2024)

 

Triple-Exposures (July 27, 2024)

 

New Work (April 2024)

 This image began as a triple-exposure, which was then duplicated four times and arranged to complete the final work. 

High Desert Mirages, New Mexico (March 2023)

 

Kansas Landscape with Electrical Utility Pole (summer 2022)

 A three-exposure panorama.  This landscape photo is composed of three individual, (though overlapping) landscape photographs; each of which was made with a full-frame 35mm DSLR and attached 35mm lens. This strange combination of the wooden vertical obelisk and wild vines suggested an element of eros at work (or play?) within the fertile fields of Northeast Kansas.  

Trinity Orchid (September 2021)

Nucleus (June 2021)

Ghost Plant (August 2021)

January 2021

 My thought when I first viewed this in-camera, triple-exposure photograph, as it appeared on the viewing screen on the back of my DSLR, was that extremely weird, uncanny sensation that I was gazing at a figure simultaneously orchid and human.