"The Blacks and Whites"
Like most photographers I've had my development and exposure in black and white film and darkroom experience. And like many others, I started rolling my own 35 mm. film and developing it in my basement, printing it with my Beseler enlarger and processing it in a tray with the proverbial Dektol. I may have even had the audacity to think I could make a print as good as the great Ansel Adams. Included in these little snippets are blended images of some of the great ones; Dorothea Lange and Annie Leibovitz, Henri-Cartier Bresson and Paul Weston, and Diane Arbus and Ansel Adams. But alas, it is only a dream of mine. Here are some of my “wannabees”