1983, j’en étais à la fin de mon premier été, enfin quelques semaines de mi juillet à début septembre, Eureka est une base météorologique et station de recherche canadienne dans l’Arctique, 80 degrés nord, dans l’ïle Ellesmere, pour moi un paradis, mais un peu loin de tout…..pas le bout du monde, mais de là on le voit…:) Malheureusement la plupart des photos que j’aie prises là bas sont empoussiérées et demande beaucoup de traitement, ici j’ai essayé quelque chose de plus rapide, quelques filtres et outils et utilisé l’original afin de copier des parties d’images, plus rapide mais pas encore sûr que c’est la meilleure option, peut-être que le mieux est de laisser le peintre, mon autre personnalité, en faire une série de tableau, il y aura aussi de la poussière mais ce sera celle de l’atelier….:)

1983, I was ending my first Arctic summer, well more like mid July to early September, I was in Eureka, no not Eureka California, more like Ellesmere Island, 80 degrees north, north of the north, almost, up there a compass should the North to the East then or West, don’t remember but was not pointing North, magnetic pole was somewhere out there but not North…some days you did feel you were where the world end, if you believe the Earth is flat, not my case, it is round or roundish. The problem with the hundreds of negatives and slide taken up there is that they did accumulate lot of dust, difficult to remove, try washing them but not very effective, this time instead of removing all individual dust mark on the scan, I tried a few effects, to blur some of these marks and improve the sharpness and use the texture copy tool to retrieve some clean area of the original photo, not bad but I feel it can be better, maybe I should let my alter ego, the painter, make a series of painting from theses dusty photos, there would still be a dust problem with painting, but more like dust from my atelier on the canvas, and that I can deal with that or just ignore it and embed it in paint, so in a hundred years, art historian will have plenty of DNA or dust to assess the veracity of my painting in case it does become a chef d’oeuvre, ok quit dreaming and do something…

La photo travaillée et l’originale, début août déjà l’automne pointait / The touch up photo and the original, already the short summer was near the end