wilson hurst

latent image intensification

H ere is a two-dimensional multistable-perception rendering of an imaginary three-dimensional sky object. This is an example of the Necker Cube concept, demonstrating how the human visual system accepts an understanding of each ambiguous part that makes the whole consistent. Time spent viewing the image can result in a perspective shift where the near will become the far. An optical illusion, this shift phenomenon creates uncertainty, as the image can be read different ways while flipping back and forth between valid interpretations.

“Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.” - Rembrandt

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E voking memories of past summers and long enjoyable bicycle rides on the Katy Trail. I much prefer horses to be part of the pastoral scenery rather than skittish trail obstacles. That dark equine in the image center certainly is an efficient infrared absorber. Perhaps he is operating under the assumption that the electromagnetic modes in a radiation cavity quantize energy equal to Planck's constant times frequency.

“There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.” - Author Unknown

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D igital pinhole photography is miraculous. The ability to form images without a glass lens allows the photographer to work directly with the particle theory of light. Light is made up of little particles that obey the same laws of physics as other spherical masses. They are minuscule, so the particles in two intersecting beams do not scatter off each other. And using a photon sieve forces the process directly into quantum field theory - particles can be generated and particles can be canceled when proscribed as a collection of harmonic oscillations.

Diffraction occurs whenever a wavefront encounters an opaque object. The photon sieve uses edge diffraction to bend light waves around a concentric series of circular edge patterns. Great magical stuff. Since the focal length of a photon sieve is dependent on the wavelength of the radiation being recorded, resultant images possess a unique dreamy softness. Technically the focal length is inversely proportional to wavelength.

“Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.” - Edward Witten

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C rossing a great frontier. Winter appeal in austere bleakness, there is not much out on the plains to hinder the wind. But gray days are full of color offering visual pleasure, with access only limited by imagination. Every day is a good day for photography, working from both an internal and external frame of reference. These viewpoints function best when not interpreted in isolation from one another.

“ We were talking - about the space between us all
And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you.” - George Harrison

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O verlooking the town of Parkville, now an engulfed suburb of Kansas City, this impressive building was constructed in the late 1800's using limestone mined on the Park University campus grounds and built with the labor of students. Must have been some hard working and dedicated students, not devoted to instant gratification and text messaging. Psychoanalysts speculate that persons displaying poor impulse control suffer from "weak ego boundaries".

“Instant gratification is not soon enough.” - Meryl Streep

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T he calendar is a fabricated cultural system of categorizing time passage thus providing structure to social or managerial activities. This organization is accomplished by assigning names to different sub-set periods of time, like days, weeks, months and years. Some of these periods are synchronized with astronomical phenomenon, such as rotational cycles. A year, which starts anew today, is the time between two event recurrences related to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. No astronomical year has an integer number of days or lunar months, so any calendar that follows an astronomical year must have a system of intercalation. One second was added to 2008 to help compensate for this variance.

“The world's official timekeepers have added a "leap second" to the last day of the year on Wednesday, to help match clocks to the Earth's slowing spin on its axis, which takes place at ever-changing rates affected by tides and other factors.” - Reuters

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E mploying a combination of techniques, this image makes me happy. The base layer landscape was shot handheld with a photon sieve, while the overlay texture layer was shot with a 45mm pancake lens. This is a further exploration of the concept of an abstract landscape, and represents a worthy addition to a series of images in this vein I have been working on for several years. Seems like a nice way to round out the year.

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A back alley in Lee Summit revisited as a sensuous experience. Once again an accidental alignment of random visual elements makes for a wonderful capture opportunity. Spontaneous unassuming but worthy art can be appreciated well outside the confines of a gallery or museum. No big mystery here: simply look and form your own opinions.

“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.” - Tom Stoppard

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