This was around late 90`s early 2000`s. Saw funny sign photographs, by some Semi, or Pro photographer either in a Photography magazine or a book. £ $ £ $ £ $ symbols went off in my head, I can do that!
Of course these were original funny photographs of road names, directions, that a well rehearsed Candid Photographer had taken, he or she had a relationship with the subject, or vica versa. But my little brain thought I could doctor signs myself to be funny, I could print them out on T Shirts and Transfer them with an inkjet printer onto Mugs. Ok, got a bit worried about getting caught putting graffiti on road signs ,so worked out different, overcomplicated ways of doing it photographically. This was pre-digital,for me, I didn't even have a computer or printer of my own, but I was reading about all the fantastic printing paper and media, and the cool new software that was allowing people to alter photographs, take stuff away from their digital images, add stuff, change them to works of art and print onto anything. I was still messing about in the dark, literally (darkroom, get it?) Or copying stuff on stands.
Finally I realised if I took an ordinary photographic print of a road name, or information board and drew on it with pen, then rephotographed it, it looked like someone had written a rather amusing ditty on the board originally and I had wandered upon it by chance, took out my ever present Camera and captured it. Oh how I laughed, those long summer evenings. . .
I will have to find those old photographs, odd road names that I added to, rude interpretations of traffic directions. Quite a collection I amassed, racking up costs in film, developing, printing and posting. Getting my photographs developed over the counter was way too expensive, until one day, oh look, something more shiney over there. . .and the masterpieces of photographic brilliance and ingenuity, got put in a drawer.
wish i had taken these lessons
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