Photography Scans - The Weirdness - This Scanner Finds Things ~ Father & Mother's Brother, a photo by pedter on Flickr.

Six months ago when I got my scanner I was sure that scanning photo prints was making digital copies of an analog medium. Now that I've been scanning so much, and had so much time to contemplate the nature of imaging (not photography?) while waiting for the scanner, my thoughts on this have… evolved.
This digital version seems different to my eye, it's far less contrasty, and the damage to the print is now a part of the image, as time passes the original print will get more scratches but this SCAN is a moment in time for THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. A photo of a photo. I'm starting to think that this is actually a whole new image. One related to the original print yes, but a distinct and separate entity.
The PHOTO is of my father Lane Onyschuk and my uncle Johannes Zits.
And so is the scan.

Grand Parents

This is a photo of my Dad's Mom and Dad. I love this photo. It's perfectly dated and timeless at once, a photo of two loving happy people, awkward and confident. This to me is pure portraiture from a period when subjects and photographers were more reverent of the process. It's crazy to me that this party pic says so much to me about these two people. One of the saddest things in my life (so far) is that I never met them. When my dad was in his 20's he started making some good money and bought his parents plane tickets to some sunny destination. On the way to the airport they were hit by a drunk driver and both died.
Rest In Peace Grandma and Grandpa.

Grrrr....

Losing my grip on posting. Wanted to roar into april and do 15 for the month. Haven't. Done. One. Yet.  I have however been doing some work for a little Sunday project I call Corporate Ladder™. 
Here's a Photograph of my mother. She came and visited me for my birthday in March. What a great person. :)
I wanted to take a portrait of her as I had just recently seen Aleksander Rodchenko's photograph Portrait of Mother, 1924. It was a sunny day and I wanted soft lighting so I set up a 4x6 white scrim 4 feet of the ground and I also stood 4 feet off the ground beside it, shooting at perhaps +2/3 exposure adjustment.
I'm not foolish enough to say mine even comes close to expressing as much as Al's does. His conveys an incredible depth of feeling, soul, simplicity, and without being over-bearing in sentiment. Thank you Alexander Rodchenko/Mother/Life for the inspiration.

Mother, Chuck Onyschuk - 2011

Portrait of Mother, Aleksander Rodchenko - 1924