Experiments With Photography

Here's what happens when you dip color slides in bleach:






I'm sure that's something you've always wondered about, right? What would happen if I dipped my slides in bleach? I'm the kind of person who not only wonders, but has to try it and see. The yellow dye bleaches out first, leaving the blue and magenta dyes. It's just the opposite of bleach on fabric, where the blue bleaches out first leaving yellow and magenta. I think it looks really interesting -- like seeing the world through sunglasses with deep blue lenses

I was looking through my slides tonight, and I also found this one:



It's a picture of reflections of the sun on the water in my cat's water bowl, taken with a pinhole camera. It kind of looks like rainbows and clouds. I really like the strange effects I can get with a pinhole.