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MEGALITH MARKERS IN CELESTIAL CALENDAR CALIBRATED TO SEASONAL EQUINOXES AND SOLSTICES DATE & ORIGIN UNESTABLISHED 35MM FILM PHOTOGRAPH

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35MM FILM PHOTOGRAPH

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VERDANT HAWK MOTH (24)

ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR 35MM PHOTOGRAPH

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VERDANT HAWK MOTH (24)

ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR 35MM PHOTOGRAPH

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CLIFF GRASSES (18-21)

BOKONG, KINGDOM OF LESOTHO 35MM FILM CINEMAGRAPH

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CLIFF GRASSES (18-21)

BOKONG, KINGDOM OF LESOTHO 35MM FILM CINEMAGRAPH

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PALM AT GEARING'S POINT, DUSK

35MM FILM CINEMAGRAPH

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BACCHUS TEMPLE بعلبك BAALBEK, LEBANON

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SUNRISE, OL DOINYO LENGAI (THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD) TANZANIA

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水关 SHUIGUAN SECTION GREAT WALL OF CHINA

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GLOWING CORAL TREE

ERYTHRINA LYSISTEMON LOWVELD REGION, SOUTH AFRICA 35MM FILM CINEMAGRAPH

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an image (made) of light. (Latin: photo, light + graph, image)

An emulsion, of just a few microns in thickness, is spread over an acetate base layer, the film. The emulsion captures the photograph, the film layer holds the emulsion in place. In this emulsion layer is an ocean of infinitesimal crystals; microscopic (silver halide) crystal molecules which are sensitive to light.

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at the Moment of exposure: Light photons, focused through the camera lens at their full intensity and in true colour,

collide into the crystals causing a chemical reaction at a molecular level

in which each microscopic crystal in the emulsion captures that Moment’s actual Light; the same photons which travelled through space from the core of the Sun

the image now chemically recorded into the emulsion and held by the crystals within it

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The exposure button is pressed, creating a photograph in the technical sense: This creates the physical record on the surface of the film, in the form of a photographic negative.

The negative(s) are then developed, chemically treated, by a lab, which deactivates the light-sensitivity of the crystals to permanently fix the image which had been seared into the emulsion. The negatives are then digitised by high resolution scanning.

Then I begin the process to grade each photograph, to reveal the natural appearance of colour, shadow, and light.

A film photograph is like a translucent plate which has been dyed with the full colour spectrum, but, because it's a dye, the image can appear just not quite right.

Making small adjustments, bit by bit, it’s a fine-tune process that can stretch on for nights, when I prefer to work, it being still and un-bright.

Gradually a more faithful version of the image is revealed from the photograph through grading, while I keep in mind the question; What was the colour of the light?