Originally Posted by
dasBlute
TL;DR - I got back on...
Stopped shooting for a whole year, didn't print for a couple years. Film backed up into boxes.
Then slowly, little a little mouse... got out the books: Ansel (because that's where I started), Atget (because I adopted him as family long ago), then Kenna (because I can't print like him), Kertesz (because he's more curious than I), Loranc (just because), and Robert Adams (because my pictures are often just 'pretty' aesthetic scenes)... I perused my lightroom catalog an nauseam. Mostly reorganized the thousands of images: roll film and sheet. Found work I forgot I'd done. And found gratitude that I've done so much work at all, some of which is good.
Now I'm printing again, sort of obsessed. I've printed 12 days in the last month - a lot for me. And the prints are good - again, for me. I started with 5x7, but then backed off and went back to the 6x6 and 6x9, I'm working back up to the 4x5, and there is sooo much work to print. What a joyful 'problem' to have.
Blessings to you, wherever you are in your arc.
-Tim
ps - thanks for this forum, where I lurk and learn. I've not much to add to all the technical discussions, and my skills are suspect at best, but my enthusiam almost never wanes.
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