Ok, later, I re-shot the cattails with 35mm (50mm/2.1cm) and have been heading for the darkroom week after week … yes, life if busy …
Finally made it.
These show, in part (I have many reasons), why I love film vs digital: just look at the fabulous grain. Photoshop can fake it, but I love the real thing. I once had a fake Rolex that a friend brought me from abroad. Personally, I couldn’t tell the difference between it and a real one, but wearing it fell very-short from what I can imagine wearing a real one might feel. Anyways, I won’t get started on my feelings about Photoshop here … they are mixed and complex. And, the fake Rolex stopped running after a month …
Historical sidebar: there is some disagreement as-to the initial origin of the dog-on-a-stick/corn dog. From what I read, the dog-on-a-stick is the first noted use given there is a patent dated 1927 that describes putting a sausage/etc onto a stick to cook. Not sure corn batter was in play, but the dog and stick definitely are. Perhaps the squabble should be re-stated: one as-to the origin of dog-on-a-stick, and another to use of a corn batter. Troubling issues, those.
Academic note: I did a search thru my Bible concordance … no mention of “dog-on-a-stick”, nor of “corn dog” … so, definitely the early Greeks and Aramaic speaking crowd didn’t come up with the thing. But I’m convinced God foresaw the humor of the cattail/corn dog on-a-stick visual long, long ago … and still smiles.
Anyways … I did get back into the darkroom today to finally print God’s Own: corn dogs on-a-stick. Actually, I was torn between two negatives: two different compositions/perspectives … so I printed them both, God’s Own: corn dogs on-a-stick 1 and 2. 🙂
I was going you show them here, but this post is getting a bit long, so I’ll follow-up with the next post and show them both. I’ll telegraph what I feel: I’m so happy to 1) get into the darkroom again (it’s a magical place … to see an image appear out of the developer is so much fun) and 2) I’m very happy with both of the images!!
Here’s a teaser ….
Stay tuned!!
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