A pleasant surprise

[robert blu]

Home, work in progress, we plan to re-paint. Moving furniture. Taking books away from the shelves. I open by chance (is there a chance?) a book from an old encyclopedia and I find in it the stripe of an old B&W negative. Unfortunately the scanner is already packaged in a different place bit looking at it against the light it seems me there are a few self-portraits from my young times, around the ’70s! Not possible to do this with files 🙂

 

[FrankS]

The reason I love film

 

[jwc57]

Nice surprise.

I found two negatives from my college photo class in a book a couple of years ago. I had put some negatives in books at one time and thought they were all lost when my ex sold my photography books at a yard sale after we separated. I fortunately had taken my railroad books with me. Twenty years after the divorce, it was a nice little treasure from the past.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I know how it feels!

 

[riverie]

And if you print it, you still get a wonderful result. Try that with digital...

 

[Mablo]

And if you print it, you still get a wonderful result. Try that with digital...

My thoughts exactly ;-}

 

[Godfrey]

I regularly print my digital work and it gets stuck and lost in books in exactly the same way. Similarly, I find Polaroid prints scattered through the books and boxes of old stuff too. In addition, every so often I clean out a hard drive that has become cluttered with cruft and find charming little nothing photos like this then as well.

The pleasant surprise is not limited to negatives, or analog processes.

G

 

[jsrockit]

And if you print it, you still get a wonderful result.

Well, except for the dust and scratches and what not... 😱

 

[robert blu]

Well, except for the dust and scratches and what not... 😱

maybe, but at least the film is...flat 😀
robert

 

[charjohncarter]

I just found some negatives (this week) of my daughters wedding that I never printed. She is delighted: