Backstage Kokoro
A "behind-the-scenes" look at selected images in my Kokoro project —
Content, photographic notes, EXIF data, creative process, miscellaneous commentary, and original digital captures. And now with additional audio comments about selected images!
From Kokoro #111 - Cosmic Jackrabbit Samurai Warrior
I'd photographed the Big Obsidian Flow in Central Oregon in the mid 1980s, attempting to make images with a view camera and its cumbersome tilts and swings while not slicing myself In the razor-sharp obsidian. Those images failed — universally. Ever since then, I've wanted to go back, and finally had the opportunity to do so last year. Photographing in color, I was surprised to see how intense the reflections were off the glassy rock surfaces. This isn't at all what I had pre-visualized 35 years ago. I like these far better. I guess sometimes you can go back, but the destination may be a totally new one.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/80 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 200, Panasonic DC-G9, LEICA DG 50-200/F2.8-4.0, 144 mm
I'd photographed the Big Obsidian Flow in Central Oregon in the mid 1980s, attempting to make images with a view camera and its cumbersome tilts and swings while not slicing myself In the razor-sharp obsidian. Those images failed — universally. Ever since then, I've wanted to go back, and finally had the opportunity to do so last year. Photographing in color, I was surprised to see how intense the reflections were off the glassy rock surfaces. This isn't at all what I had pre-visualized 35 years ago. I like these far better. I guess sometimes you can go back, but the destination may be a totally new one.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/80 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 200, Panasonic DC-G9, LEICA DG 50-200/F2.8-4.0, 144 mm