5-15-2014
Guilty as charged. I did not take any pictures today. So since it happens to be a Thursday, I am
featuring a “TBT” (Throw Back Thursday) shot.
This is a wedding cake at a wedding that I captured in England last
year.
Why didn’t I take any
pictures, you asked? I was all equipped
with my camera and went to a colleague of my dad’s home to pay him a
visit. This particular colleague teaches
photography here in Trinidad. Knowing
that he is from my dad’s era, I printed a few of my shots to take for him to
see. He loved them, critiquing and
encouraging me on each one.
He then started showing me
some of the images that he had captured. Very inspiring and beautiful images, his age
(not physical but rather number of years photographing) and experience
shows. He has such vast knowledge of
lighting and application. He spoke
fondly of his days using film and his first dark room that he built to wash his
film. He spoke of his preference using
transparencies. He told me of his
transition to the digital age and how he learned ‘photoshop’.
He then spoke fondly of a
recent exhibit that was done by the high commissioner of his images in England
and the letters he received after thanking him. He doned gloves and pulled out several of
the images that were sent for the exhibit, there were thirty (30) in all,
twenty (20) depicting Trinidad’s carnival and ten (10) showcasing various
scenes around the island, these pictures were printed on a non acid medium
which could not be handled with your bare hands.
He told me that he was
documenting Cedros and Point Fortin, and asked me to go into the living room,
where he had a few images that he had printed that morning, laying on the floor. The black and whites intrigued me. There were several beach and river shots in
black and white, and his expert knowledge of light showed. The pictures were perfect to script, they had
black and white and every possible shade of gray in between.
They were indeed
inspiring, however, I wanted to shoot something in particular after seeing
that, and it would require a trip. So
hence, no photo. Stay tuned though, I
will be making that debut shortly.
So I took an old image,
and reprocessed it, making it new again LOL!
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