A short trip to Macau with the intention of using an analog camera turned into a first exposure to AI-generated images. A camera handling error led to all frames being exposed onto the same bit of film, as I found out only when it was too late. So I ended up with not a single image. This analog process is at one end of the spectrum of the technologies available to photographers today. A technique involving careful handling of equipment, and also considerable cost in comparison to modern digital photography. The other extreme is image generation not involving cameras at all. AI-engines construct images based on a textual description from an enormous amount of training data. After my analog fiasco, I decided to resort to this other end of the technological spectrum to recreate the images I had hoped to be keepers from my daytrip to Macau. I tried to remember the scenes and describe them, in order to feed the AI-engine. I found the results to be quite extraordinary, and a bit scary too.
