Robert's Ramblings

Mum has a liquid amber tree in her front garden and every Autumn I am reminded how amazing it is see those fantastic colours.

Growing up I never really noticed as the colours changed from green to yellow, orange, red and finally crimson before littering the ground below.

Now my visits are infrequent and every time it is a treat to see a different season. This one Autumn.


Photo: Robert Rath, 'Mum's Autumn Treat', 1/8000s f/25 ISO640 100mm

An opportunity, a cheeky grin, a peek through thousands of negative images on long strips of celluloid.

The irony is that this image will never experience the physical reality of silver rendered in film.

Instead these photons were transformed into minute pockets of electric charge then carried away on structures of aluminium, gold and poly-silicon to be stored again elsewhere.

Copied, uploaded, mathematically manipulated, archived, download and finally rendered in the memory of something I once viewed on a screen I once owned.

Though I miss the real physicality of silver in celluloid, I'd miss making images of cheeky grins more.


Photo: Robert Rath, 'Peeking Through Celluloid', 1/25s f/4.5 ISO100 125mm