A Kind of Inferno

Quite by chance, looking for something else, I stumbled today on the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, the nineteenth-century portrait photographer who was not widely known until the 1950s.

Among her famous subjects was Thomas Carlyle who found his session with her 'a kind of Inferno', although she did make him look like a cross between George Best and Terence Stamp.

As I passed him in Kelvingrove Park this afternoon, I thought I would take advantage of his passivity and follow in her footsteps. Of course the batteries were dead, so I had to use my crappy phone. And posterizing is about the only thing that can save it.