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Sunrise and sunset over the back meadow

April 16, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

Sunset Sunrise These are more abstract than any other slit scans I’ve posted. There’s no trying to get the viewer to see the image as anything like reality.  

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Garrapata hills

April 15, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

  The hills north of Garrapata beach on a windy day, with the slit scan camera. Wildflowers in the foreground, with a lot of detail that doesn’t make it to web-size images as the flowers blew around in the considerable wind. The shadows of the clouds on the hillside was what I was going for…. [Read More]

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More slit scan clouds

April 14, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

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An eerie sunset

April 13, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

  Sometimes slit scan photographs don’t look very real at all. This one from last night is in that camp. Kind of creepy, huh?

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Strange clouds

April 12, 2012 JimK Leave a Comment

  Yesterday we had some nice cloud formations. With the slit scan camera, they looked like this. One of the things I like about doing slit scans of clouds and waves is that, at first glance, they look real, but as you spend more time with the image, they look stranger and stranger.

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