Happy Accident
Russel Kwan
11"x14"
fiber based silver gelatin
edition of 9

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The plan was to capture a week's worth of sun passages on this sheet of film in a Drãnoflex. Around day 3, I noticed some detritus had fallen on the pinhole! Not thinking, and preoccupied by cursing, I picked up the camera. After a little more cursing, I cleared the pinhole, and decided to carry on with the seven days, hoping for an interesting double exposure. Compounding all of the other errors in judgement that day, I happened to replace the camera upside-down (actually pretty easy to do with the cylindrical Drãnoflex). This picture is the happily accidental result. The big tree reads correctly both this side up, and upside down - I think that's pretty fun.

4x5 inch large format negative

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Series Keywords: ultra long film based exposures of the sun crossing the sky, sun arcs, experimental film chemistry

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