Stamps

This is the latest is my slowly growing series on books and how we interact with them. The images are all staged to evoke the feeling of an "actor" having just stepped away, leaving the scene in progress as it were.

Some fun(?) facts: this is my childhood stamp collection. This is a scan of a darkroom print; the original image was taken on the Crown Graphic. I use the library's scanner to digitize my print work, and it will let you do some ridiculous things. It topped out at something like 4800 dpi which yielded a 1.3 GB file, bringing the computer to its knees. The edited digital image (mostly just to crop out the edges of the print and make it look like the analog print) is still a 50+ MB jpeg, which only Flickr seems capable of handling. So... Flickr is now part of my workflow, since once uploaded there, it will allow me to re-download the image in any number of smaller sizes.