sunday snapshot # 5

Here are some of my first darkroom prints.

Pentax k1000 -- 35mm -- Kodak TMax film -- circa 1993-1994

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” -- Ansel Adams

walking through the streets of Cadaqués, Spain -- 1994

Altgeld Hall -- NIU campus -- 1993

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altgeld's_castles

first apartment -- Dekalb -- 1993

Working with film is a complex art form. It is demanding and personal and elusive; it makes you really work for it-- to connect and capture and create. With photography, whether darkroom or digital, I am always chasing something.