{"id":3153,"date":"2017-05-06T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2017-05-06T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T00:46:09","slug":"two-remarkable-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"Two remarkable photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accidents happen. Sometimes old negatives go awry, the emulsion reticulating because of heat or moisture or the passage of mysterious subatomic particles&#8230;or just <i>because<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been scanning negatives from Sarawak 1965-1967, uncovering events and locations I&#8217;d forgotten, and two of the frames on one roll had developed spontaneous reticulation that could be felt as ridges in the emulsion. I scanned them anyway, and when I opened them in Lightroom and tweaked them a bit, marvelous images emerged. These were taken by Broot at a ceremony for the raising of the first house post in the New Village that we were involved in building (a story in itself, and not a very happy one for the people who were being resettled). <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/34455724446\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"a happy accident\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4167\/34455724446_71d4edb59e.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" alt=\"a happy accident\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/33654612354\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"another happy accident\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4187\/33654612354_ddcfeaaaba.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" alt=\"another happy accident\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSomewhere I think I have 50-year-old prints of these photos, without the added grace of reticulation. Don&#8217;t know where to start looking, but if and when they show up I&#8217;ll scan and blog them too. Meanwhile, enjoy the early work of a marvelously gifted and subtle photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accidents happen. Sometimes old negatives go awry, the emulsion reticulating because of heat or moisture or the passage of mysterious subatomic particles&#8230;or just because. I&#8217;ve been scanning negatives from Sarawak 1965-1967, uncovering events and locations I&#8217;d forgotten, and two of the frames on one roll had developed spontaneous reticulation that could be felt as ridges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-sarawak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}