Creating a silver gelatin print is as much scientific study as artistic vision. Careful composition in the camera. Anticipation from film to developed negative and again from negative to first print.

A fresh batch of chemistry. Escape into a world of our own, the darkroom’s red glow. Excitement renewed: witness to the ghostly latent image as white paper becomes a photograph. 

Meticulous perfection, tonal manipulation, darkroom wizardry. A selenium toner bath and the max-blacks pop... finally, we see what was in the mind’s eye.

The experience is why we live in the filtered reality called photography. Where we take it is boundless...