March 20,2013: An early print of mine from the 1970s, when I was experimenting with multiple exposures, is part of the permanent collection of the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. It is currently on display there. By the way, this is a delightful museum that allows you see great art without the crowds of many of the larger museums.
March 5, 2013: I’ve added several images to my landscape gallery.
Latest batch of negatives from 2011 have been sent out for drum scanning. They should be on the site in a month or two.
I’ve added some new images to my galleries. It’s a long process between taking the images and putting them up on the site. A lot of images don’t make the final cut. The ones that do, I’ve lived with and worked on and can still stand to see them.
My Springsteen photographs were taken between 1973 and 1975. He ruined me for seeing any other rock’n’roll bands for the next three decades… and it was worth it too. I was fortune to find a home for several of these photographs in the Springsteen On Tour 1968-2005 book that came out a few years ago.
The rain has given me more time in the darkroom. I develop six sheets of film at a time in trays in complete darkness and mix many of my chemicals from scratch. I use a tape recorder to keep track of the time. I does get a bit dull, but then there’s that moment when you turn on the lights and see the negatives for the first time; that’s worth a lot of time in the dark.
I just returned from a photographic journey to Maine and Nova Scotia. Wind was a constant problem as it shakes my large format camera. I took to carrying an umbrella with me everywhere I went. I held it up in the direction of the wind and squeezed the cable release. Usually it worked. Carrying an umbrella caused some odd looks when the weather was sunny. Still, anyone who sets up a view camera on a tripod and goes under the cloth is no stranger to odd looks.
I’ve begun developing the negatives and then will hang work prints on my wall and see which ones I can still stand to look at after a few months. The ones that are left hanging, I’ll work on some more. Of those, a few may make it to the web site by early 2012.