"The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh."
Edward Weston
This encapsulates the philosophy I seek to engender in my photographs. Following the trails blazed by the Group f/64, my workflow concentrates on creating scenes of the world 'as it is'; pre-visualizing the image and capturing that vision for developing as a fine print. While I produce both black & white and color prints, the majority of the work presented here will be monochrome images.
In the digital world, black & white and color share the same source information. The process of desaturating the colors to a monochrome image with appropriate contrast, shadows and highlights becomes the 'digital darkroom' challenge. The result is two very different interpretations of the same scene.
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Presenting monochrome images side-by-side with color images can be conflicting at best, and possibly even disruptive. To provide a purer environment in which to view images without needing to 'cleanse the viewing palate' in a constant shifting between the two modes, the site catalogs are separated.
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The extension -B or -C indicates there is a corresponding monochrome(-B) or color(-C) image which can be accessed by selecting the full size image.