There is simply No Possible Way to rightly experience a panoramic photograph on a screen. In fact, it may be the last great and lasting holdout of photography as a non-digital medium.
Think about it. For the most part, all of the styles and ideas that photography has given us since the beginning are being successfully digitized. Even the sacred Large Format isn’t quite as special as it use to be. Physically-speaking, many of our screens are as big or bigger than an 8x10 (and will all one day soon be of “Retina” quality, no doubt.) And like it or not, but sheer size does indeed matter when it comes to viewing photographs.
This is why I think panoramics are so special. They are big. And the experience of their bigness simply cannot be conveyed on a monitor. This photo is not terribly impressive onscreen. Even when you view it in high resolution, you still don’t get a feel for the “panoramic-ness” of it. The printed version is amazing. It’s only 6 inches tall, and the color is a bit washed out (test prints) but it still feels bigger and grander somehow.
I need to print more of these. Bigger.
This just made my day.
Jay Electronica is using Notations for his Tumblr blog. I’m honored. The man has taste, what can I say? ;) Go follow him. His new album is coming soon and it’s gonna be huge.
http://eyeofelectronica.com
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New poster I did for Thursday Market.
“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. […] Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.” — Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)
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Climbed.
Out walking with my man Myles.
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Tools of my night-running trade.
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He had an interesting name but I can’t remember it.
Cute Couple
Experimenting with flavor on a Superhealth Tonic. Medium-hot water, Apple Cider Vinegar, Cranberry Juice, Maple Syrup, Élixir Végétal Chartreuse, Neutralizing Cordial.
aaaaah. Today and tomorrow at Quillisascut Farm. Bliss.
Friday, late. Me and M.