Herb and Hockney's mum

@Ian Bramham: Very true! I put a little bit about the place on my previous image, though I've been familiar with the Hockney composite images for so long that I assume the rest of the world is too. For those not familiar, I think Hockney was the first person to shoot sets of individual images with the intention of combining them into one final piece - though it could well have been done before? His first ones are from the early 70s. He'd shoot several roles of film and send them off to be processed, then spend all night assembling a final montage. On one of his finished pieces there is a letter from the processing house apologising for one of the rolls having been eaten by the machinery! Hockney liked the idea that a single photo could be easily dismissed in a few seconds, so if you combined several images you multiplied out people's attention span, so they looked at the image for longer. He was aslo fascinated by the expression of time and space that can be achieved using this technique - he has a good one of a game of scrabble where the time element is displayed in the developing board and the range of expressions in the player's faces. Today there are countless examples on the internet including several groups on flickr. They can be time consuming to produce, but quite a captivating process. I reckon I need about 1 minute per separate image when assembling them, though shooting doesn't necessarily take very long at all. Having said that, there's a guy in Glasgow who shoots over several months and at different times of day to capture the widest variation. Hmm, I thought I had bookmarked his site.