Mirror Images
While editing some images for my “Road to Pedernal” series, I realized that by flipping a selected image horizontally and combining it with the original un-flipped image, an interesting “mirror” image could be created.
The first one I tried – Road to Pedernal -- is the image above and I thought it worked well. It’s one of those unexpected surprises I occasionally come across when I am just goofing around. The goofing around is something akin to the kaleidoscope series I’ve also added to the website.
The one below is a new one I created of a sunrise on the Chama River in Chamita, which is a short distance north of Espanola, New Mexico, worked well within this context, also.
I started playing around with some other photos that, due to their edges, I thought would match up well when also flipped and matched well and this series began.
In some of the images there is a resemblance to old stereo photos.
I think I like playing with these because I’ve always liked panoramics, which these remind me of. Panorama photos, at least for me, echo more closely what the human eye sees.
The first one I tried – Road to Pedernal -- is the image above and I thought it worked well. It’s one of those unexpected surprises I occasionally come across when I am just goofing around. The goofing around is something akin to the kaleidoscope series I’ve also added to the website.
The one below is a new one I created of a sunrise on the Chama River in Chamita, which is a short distance north of Espanola, New Mexico, worked well within this context, also.
I started playing around with some other photos that, due to their edges, I thought would match up well when also flipped and matched well and this series began.
In some of the images there is a resemblance to old stereo photos.
I think I like playing with these because I’ve always liked panoramics, which these remind me of. Panorama photos, at least for me, echo more closely what the human eye sees.
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