First Post

Welcome to The Latent Image Blog and thank you for reading.

So what is The Latent Image Blog? I have a lot of ideas for this blog mostly revolving around photography (being a photography student). I want to do many things on this blog including eventually putting up a podcast. I also plan on posting all sorts of things like reactions to current events, interviews, recipes that i find good or interesting and stories.

What does Latent Image mean? Well it's a photography term. If you google it you'll find something like this:
- The invisible image formed in a camera by the action of light on a photographic emulsion.

Did you get that? This isn't a great definition but what it boils down to is an invisible image left in the photographic emulsion on photo paper or film that has not yet been processed. When you put the paper or film into the developing chemical (D-76 is what I use most often for film) the latent image will reveal itself. I find this "phenomenon" if you'll allow me to call it such, amazing and I never tire of watching it occur. It just appears before your eyes out of nowhere like magic and no matter how much you think you know the image that you are working with, you can never really be sure what you're going to get in the end. So that's what the name is all about... I just like the idea and the name and what it can mean, so there. :p

Anyway, here's a little something that my good friend Mike (aka Unleaded Logic) and I made together with the help of my wife's parakeet Polly. It's a saucy little number I call "Polly Song". Mike did a great job mastering this track and adding all the music to it, i just sampled Polly and made the drum beat. Click or paste this link into your address bar to hear it. Polly Song Enjoy!

Keep checking back for up dates, there is much more to come soon!

- The Latent Blogger a.k.a Joe