Everything’s important

After numerous experiments, I’ve finally got the hang of my Epson V750 PRO scanner, so I decided to rescan many of my medium format and 35mm transparencies.

Initially, I went back to the files of mounted scans that I’d built up between 2005 and 2010, before I started regularly printing my own photos, and a long time before I turned to digital capture.

What surprised me was that when I went back to these curated images, I also wanted to see the exposures that I’d rejected. Contained in transparent sleeves within stiff card envelopes, were many more transparencies, showing different angles or different subjects altogether in the exposed rolls.

I realised that I wanted to scan every one of them, so the rescans were supplemented with first time scans of “new” old and long rejected slides.

A slide from Berlin’s East Side Gallery in 2008 / 09
The same place, developed and busy, ten years later in a digital capture
Two views of the monument to book-burnings on Bebel Platz, Berlin. I initially selected the second
It was interesting to see results when experimenting with different exposures, such as with these landscapes of The Regent’s Park boating lake

As I work through the slides, I’m uploading different selections on my Instagram, Flickr and Behance accounts. I’m glad I’ve kept all these transparencies: even a decade after taking them, I’m still learning from them.