About Us
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Ten years, a mountain of exposed film and countless hours staring at a film scanner (while it scans film at a rate slightly slower than continental drift) gets you this website. Trinidad Dreamscape is a not-for-profit website and our pictures are not for sale. Each picture is special to us. Many of our pictures were taken with a single-sheet large format camera and developed by hand. We would like to thank the people of Trinidad & Tobago for allowing us in the past to use our huge, weird cameras openly without fear of violence. Unfortunately, in short, times have changed. So, in December 2008, a decision was made to close down the website. The old camera shutters have thus fallen silent. Even so, as time marches on, the pictures on Trinidad Dreamscape remain frozen in time; a glimpse of a dreamscape.
If you are looking for new pictures, you can find them on my personal photoblog.
- Dr. Rory Roopnarine, 2008.
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Contacting Us
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Please read the Frequently Asked Questions Page before contacting us. Trinidad Dreamscape does not offer any professional photography services. You can reach Rory here:
info(at)trinidaddreamscape.net
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Technical Note
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We do not use digital cameras; we are a 'film only' website (read why). We use all manner of film and cameras. Our main camera, for example, uses single film sheets (negatives) each the size of a typical 8x10" print from your local photolab. Some of our cameras are more than forty years old, while others are more modern. We mostly use highly saturated slide films from Kodak and Fuji for our colour pictures. Our black and white pictures are a mix of films from Ilford and Kodak. All of our pictures, both colour and monochrome, are developed in our darkroom, that is, in the shower. Black and white processing is easy whereas colour processing requires much more precision, and is quite arduous. Producing our pictures this way may be hard work, but there is the satisfaction of knowing that we control every stage of the picture-making process, and it is almost a magical moment when a perfect slide emerges from the dark.
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