It has been really fun for me to get back to some of my basics! I've missed the smell of chemicals on my hands, and the day I developed this print I was happy smelling them on my hands a couple hours later. Sad you might think, but hey, it's me!
I found this skull while hiking in a canyon while at Badlands National Park during my Artist in Residence position. I was actually hiking with a group of kids from The Calhoun School in NYC. The teacher was showing the kids different feathers of the skull after I took these shots..... or maybe before. Anyways, I have been having a great time playing with the black and white film again! I need to go out and take a lot more shots with both film and digital yet, but there are 4 more works of work ahead of me, w00t!
All of these shots are not touched up in Photoshop. All I did was scan them in and a few I did crop, but that is all. No special settings on the scanner, no dodging and burning (I'll do that in the darkroom on prints), not levels, exposure, etc. Just a simple scan, a few crops and, oh yeah, the scanner didn't recognize the difference between black and white and color negatives so I did convert everything to black and white.
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