I found some old negatives and positives of photos I did several years ago the other night and decided to scan a couple of them. My old scanner is retarded. It deals with 35mm negatives and slides very well, but when it comes to medium format (6X6 cm) film it flips out! It came with a 6X6 cm carrier, so I assumed it could deal with medium format, which make up the vast majority of my slides and negatives. But no! When I tried to preview 6X6 film in normal or professional mode it told me it can’t find the it. So I tried it on full auto.

On the B&W negative of my bicycle racing memorabilia, it scanned the negative as a color photo, so I got a normal scan of the negative which is a negative image. Easy enough — I reversed it in Photoshop, cleaned it up and got it close to the original. The slide of a night scene downtown is a different story. The software said it detected a B&W negative, but simply scanned the carrier with the slide. I thought it made an interesting photo, but it certainly was not the result I was looking for.

Speaking of mutants, the third photo is an Iceberg rose on a bush that is supposed to be White Ice Berg, but gives pink blooms. It’s either a mutant, or they got a Pink Iceberg mixed in when they shipped our white, moonlight garden several years ago.

The black iris is still blooming and a B&W photo of it shows off the blackness pretty well. The last photo is of Pink Cascade that is blooming right outside our front door.