This was with the Mamiya 6 and Tmax 100. I have to admit, that it’s another example where I must have under-developed (not on purpose) this roll. It has a soft gray quality that was rare with Tmax 100. As a general rule, I usually shot 400 film, and developed it according to instructions. There were a few times, when I would use the N+ and N- system, but never was this useful with 35mm film; and most of the time I would try it with Medium or Large format.

If you’re quick, you can pick up the number 1 of this in the photo store. And if you’re slow, you can probably still pick it up since I did have it on the site early on, and didn’t sell any, though for me it always gave me a soothing feeling.

While I was having lunch with Matt the other day, while we waited for the soup, I think I finally dis-imbued him of the idea that I went out shooting looking for shots that would sell.  It came in the form of a question from him, whether I would shoot differently if I didn’t have to worry about money, and my answer that my shooting would probably not change much.  I compared a lot of my work to Saturday Evening Post covers, at least where people were featured.  I wasn’t out to document the world, but to find something beyond and maybe more pleasurable than what we saw every day.

If I photographed the homeless, it generally was because of some texture in the photograph or some play of light and shadow that appealed to me.  I was always more interested in the design, or maybe sometimes the irony, than than the documentary aspect of photography.  Though of course unless you’re photographing peppers or fruit bowls, it’s difficult to get away from that documentary aspect as the passage of time will always give street shots a documentary quality.

At a time when there are no bicycles – this will have become a documentary photograph.

There was only one time when I purposely went out with the intention of photographing sellable images – and that was my 3 hour Circle Line trip around New York.  And those photographs did sell well.  But for the most part – the shutter was clicked simply because what I saw in the frame was pleasing in some way.