Nature, food, flowers, animals, and occasional awe at the creations of humankind. These move me to compose. I took up photography when I was in grade school. My dad introduced me and my brother to black & white film processing in a darkroom where he worked. By darkroom, I mean “dark room.” My dad is a neurophysiologist, and a windowless room in his lab had a sink. This he used to hand-process film. I learned to pour chemicals into trays and, with the lights off, to get the film out of a canister, hold it by the ends, and see-saw my hands...more
