Autochrome

I went on a little field trip at the BYU library special collections for my photography history class.  It was so cool.  They had a lot of really neat pictures there.  Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter (photographed Glenn Canyon before it was flooded), and many others, some that were almost 100 years old specifically an old tintype of Brigham Young.  I was very taken with an Autochrome photograph, a very early color process(1903), that we were able to look at under a microscope. This process, invented by Louis Lumiere, creates unique one of a kind prints. Each print has its own color scheme although there is a similar feel and look to them. The colors are produced with the use of microscopic dyed potato starches of red-orange, green and violet.  Its so cool! This is what the plate looked like under magnification.

All these tiny little colored starches brushed onto glass plate 'film' act as a filter. Blue only letting in blue light, green only letting in green. . .etc. . . they create a beautifully vibrant color image. Really the first of their kind. 

Sometimes I recognize that all I can see of my life are the little colored dots. It doesn't look appealing at all, just very dull and uninteresting. But because "I know in whom I have trusted"(2 Nephi 4:19) I believe that there is a bigger picture and that one day I may be able to catch a glimpse of it. Some day I will be able to make sense of it all.