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kodak_challenge | all galleries >> Kodak Challenges >> Challenge 12 Reflections >> Exhibition Gallery > The inside is out by Charles Gervais
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11-FEB-2003 Charles Gervais

The inside is out by Charles Gervais

London

This challenge got me thinking, and I wanted to post this image as a representative of the concept that a reflection is a trapped version of the original, if you move away from the reflecting surface, the reflection ceases to exist. What if the reflection got "out", and the origninal was put "in"? What happens then if the _reflection_ moves away? (this used to keep me awake at night when I was a kid. Anyone familiar with the directly pertinent "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoon? Cracks me up :-)

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kodak_challenge16-Apr-2005 15:49
I was afraid that I was letting myself get too philosophical, thanks for the kind and considered comments.

Jono, upside certainly is down! This little guy was playing in the school yard while I was witing to pick up my kids one day. He paused for a millisecond, and I'd just finished asking his mom if I could photograph him (adult male with camera at schoolyard, so it was a necessity). I grabbed only this shot, and then he was gone. It turned out all right. and it was only after I'd printed it for his mom that I turned it upside down. She didn't like it that way thought :-)

Silas, I like to think of myself as well rounded, but I had to look up Pynchon, and I can understand the bruising :-)

Flick, I've wondered that too, I bet it would have been something simple, but stark. Iconic, of course!

Kim, sorry about that :-)

Charles
kodak_challenge16-Apr-2005 01:28
Last msg from Silas!
kodak_challenge16-Apr-2005 01:27
having, about 5 minutes ago, finished an essay on internal and external structures' communication in Pynchon's Lot 49, this image is very strange!... you may have read my poor bruised mind.

it's really beautiful too... reminds me of 'don't look now' somehow!

Mucho respect!
kodak_challenge15-Apr-2005 22:36
I think I'm going to have nightmares! :) --Kim
kodak_challenge15-Apr-2005 14:47
Brilliant Charles - this is something special. I wonder what Cartier Bresson would have done with Photoshop.
Flick.
kodak_challenge15-Apr-2005 13:51
Upside is Down! Hi Charles - I like this image, and the message as well - kind regards jono