Poe, kaleidoscoping

As I experimented with a famous 1848 photo of Edgar Allen Poe, now in the public domain, to come up with an image for the 61st episode of the Eternal Jew’s Tale (found at the Times of Israel, at https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-eternal-jews-tale-61-a-raven/) my “darkroom work” produced the following collection of images. For your edification…

Studies of a painted room

The other night, standing in my study looking into the dining room where Nancy was working, I saw a strange thing: the walls, tho all painted the same color, were all different shades. I pulled out my camera and took a picture to verify that I wasn’t in an altered state. The camera saw it my way too. So I decided to run the camera image thru some altered states, and here’s what emerged: