I turned in my final today, but with one picture being discarded in favor of another. The photo of the General Sam Houston statue silhouette had to be discarded. The reason for this was the print that was made showed a problem with the negative. When making a print, I was getting what looked like black dust to the left of the statue. This didn’t show up in the scan (more than likely due to the software that helps remove dust from the pictures). When I examined the negative on the light table I found some specks on the left side and the top of the negative. I asked my teacher about it and, after looking closely at the emulsion side of the negative, determined that a substance was on the negative and was causing the bad prints. I tried to clean the negative, but it was a no go. This really sucks because I loved the picture.

The picture I decided to go with is the medium format globe picture below. It still fits the theme and I am confident the teacher will see the same thing.

As always, comments are welcome.