Thursday, November 23, 2006

Camera Obscura: Light in a Dark Room

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"Girl in a Red Hat" by Vermeer

Excerpt from this posting:

"...A friend who is an engineer that sends laser light to the moon visited the studio the other day and we got to talking about the camera obscura (a projected image box that Vermeer had access to.) Now, every few days he calls me into his office so can see the improvements on a rig he set up in his window..."

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-Doug Rugh

1 comment:

Michael-Ann said...

just wanted to thank you for lending your eye and your expertise in this post. The painting is truly amazing and getting your "tour" makes it even more so.