There Is A Considerable Amount Of Manipulation

When I Teach And Meet A Class For The First Time, You Realize That There Are People There That Have Exceptional Abilities Or Have The Potential To Do Exceptional Things And You Never Know Who Those People Are. My Job Is To Provide The Best Information I Can.

And Friends Of Mine That Had Photography Class In High School Would Develop The Film And Make Prints And I'd Take Them Back To The Track And Give 'em Away Or Try And Sell Them. Much To My Parents' Dismay, I Majored In Photography In College.

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.

When I'm About Ready To Press The Cable Release On The View Camera, I've Tried To Anticipate Some Of The Challenges I'm Going To Encounter In The Darkroom.

I've Found Even After Nearly 30 Years Of Doing This, There Are All Kinds Of New Surprises That Rear Their Heads At Various Times And I Truly Believe That 51% Of The Images, Success Takes Place In The Darkroom.