286. Past

I was out in the middle of the woods this afternoon. A storm was rolling in and it was getting really, really cold. As the light was fleeting, I started to snap some shots before my chances of natural light were gone. In display on the LCD, the images looked like there were headed for deletion but my fingers were too numb to care.

We hiked back to the lodge, warmed up, and ate dinner - and after the hours passed finally sat down to take a second look. This digital image, although in full color and up manipulated in post, looks almost identical to one of the first photographic processes, the calotype. Hard to believe that the top of the line piece of technology would take the image back to where it started. The happy accident, the unexpected... the best part of photography.

William Henry Fox-Talbot 1842