When The Object That Is Produced...the Photographic

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.

And As Part Of My Activity There, He Had Indicated He Wanted Me To Work With Him On That And Conduct The Various Technical Tests. And So A Few Months Later I Moved From Southern California Up To The Monterey Peninsula Where I Still Live Today.

It Was Amazing To Watch Him In The Darkroom At An Advanced Age, Still Get Excited When The Results Were Pleasing. He Still Struggled Like We All Do In The Darkroom And He Struggled Behind The Camera, And When He Had A Success He Was Beaming.

The Reason I Do Workshops Is So I Can Learn, And I Am Fortunate That I've Probably Gained More From The Whole Experience Of Teaching Than Any One Participant Has. It Is All About Asking.

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