I have been taking photos for over 20 years, since I built an enlarger out of plywood, the brightest outdoor bulb I could find and a coffee can cut to accommodate a friend's camera lens. Exposure times were on the order of a few minutes and this was in the garage with garbage bags over the windows. I have always been more interested in form/color than in subject. When I had a B&W darkroom I shot a lot of pictures of anonymous women(college is great for that), architecture, farm implements and any other shape that caught my eye.

For the past 5 years or so, I have been shooting exclusively color which adds another dimension. All of what you see here was shot with my Nikon F3 using some 35mm 25 ASA film I managed to pick up for free. For those who don't know, the slower the film(lower ASA#) the tighter the grain so you can get larger prints without losing your sharpness to grain. Since I am down to what I believe may be the last 5 rolls of this stuff(they stopped making film this slow some years ago) I am now shooting with a Hasselblad 2¼”x2¼” which gives a negative ~3.5 times as large as 35mm so I can continue to do big stuff with the faster films. While what you see here are necessarily digital representations, I shoot and print by the old analog film/light/paper method. I do not believe the possibilities of analog photography have been exhausted and I have not been able to find anyone who has ever taken a digital image larger than 16”x20”.

All these pieces are custom framed to heighten the visual effect and sometimes bring out colors that otherwise might be lost. That and the fact that I rarely print from the full negative means that these are one-of-a-kind. I have no intention of reprinting any of them. I use Robyn Color for my processing and printing and Frame-o-Rama for the framing. Both do an excellent job always.

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