@szbarnaus 5 August 2021

It's #TBT again (whoa, this weeks fly so fast...) so I remembered and realised that times in general flies quite quickly... it seems the Cool Summer Breeze it not soo lovely after all. Anyways.... back to TBT issues> I like it or not, I remembered that almost a decade ago on this day I didn't had a clue that in a couple of days I'll end up in Portugal and changes my mind about certain things.... (stick around if you are interested... Oh, yes, spoilers> next TBT Noise will be about that story, project and until then I'll dig up some shots from the trip). But today I found another photo. A lame one, a rather boring morning... no a morning boring shot... well, I can't decide, so let me know in the comments what do you think. The fact is, that about a decade ago on this day (approximately... it wasn't weekend for sure, but it wasn't in the middle of the week either, so it had to be on Thursday, don't you think?) ... so I made a shadow-portrait. Yes, that one on the thumbnail (*Noisenail!) and I started to experiment with this format on my photographs. I realised I became more interested in shadows, reflections and lights in my photographs, so whenever I was able to, I searched for this phenomena. I even Noised one back when I was figuring out what is this (lovely) Noise ... (here>https://noise.cash/post/lxj09m4z ) Quickly I choose some, from my ongoing projects... and I'll make a series, rather story about this... I kinda find it interesting. Shadows in photography has a huge part... especially in prints. Cyanotypes for example (aka the classical blueprints) doesn't require a camera just shadows and a photo sensitive material. The printing process with the end results of the classical blue photogram. The classical subject were plants, solid objects, figures.... so this is why I'm experimenting with the idea with completely modern gears> the background as a textured space on their own and shadows as clear as possible. (On cyanotypes the object is placed right on the surface, and often pressed by a glass - if you are making print from a plant for example.) If you want to learn more about this, I recommend the works of Anna Atkins'work> https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/anna-atkins-cyanotypes-the-first-book-of-photographs.html ... not just she was the best in this method... but actually she made the first book illustrated with photographic images! Cool, isn't? See you, Noise you around!