Idle Hands Be the Debbil’s Workshop

Posted by PahaPlager · Sep 10, 2026 · 112 views

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990 dropped advertising budgets nationwide down to pretty much zero for six months. So I’m standing around in a studio full of stuff and nothing to shoot (at least to pay for rent an’ such). Consequently I grabbed an ancient 14” Kodak Portrait lens we had and proceeded to torment it past its capacity to record a recognizable image. Close in with the camera and racked out to the edge of it’s illumination circle I laid some small shiny objects on a piece of glass and hit it with a couple of hot lights and this was the result. Why would you do such a thing you ask? No idea…none whatsoever.