I Find The Surface Of A Photograph

A Photographer Needs To Be A Good Editor Of Negatives And Prints! In Fact, Most Of The Prints I Make Are For My Eyes Only, And They Are No Good. I Find The Single Most Valuable Tool In The Darkroom Is My Trash Can - That's Where Most Of My Prints End Up.

Many Photographers Are Consumed With The Idea Of Making Beautiful Contact Sheets. I Am Far More Interested In Making The Best Final Print I Can.

We All Start In This Medium Because Of The Magic And The Challenge Is To Keep It Going.

You Can Also See Sometimes That The Best Pictures Are The Ones Where You Didn't Try So Hard, Where You Were Just Enjoying The Process - And You Didn't Even Know Why You Were Making The Picture. It Felt Right. If Someone Asked, 'why Are You Making This Picture?' You Probably Couldn't Describe It Very Well - And That's Why It Needs To Be A Photograph.

Whatever It Takes To Get The Image To Reach That Level Is What That Photographer Needs To Do. And For Me, I Just Have Such A Love Of The Tactile And Sensuous Quality Of A Black And White Silver Gelatin Print.