Since we moved to Washoe Valley in March of 2008, I’ve been making an effort to make photographs of this beautiful place for a future exhibit and possible book. It has so much character: a lake, streams, sand dunes, desert, forests, mountains, boulders, ranches, cattle, horses, and I haven’t even begun to photograph on the East side of the lake…
I made these two images on my new Hasselblad camera. The images were made on Kodak Tmax 100 and Fuji NPC 160.
A quick thought about film and prints:
Film and paper prints are made from organic materials (pretty much) and digital images are “virtual” and don’t really exist anywhere until they are processed onto a tangible object like paper. As an artist who began making photographs before digital was viable, I have a greater appreciation for what the image looks like on paper than what it looks like on a computer screen…perhaps I’m just old school 
Square and Film are In
