Ode to Black and White
I was about 19 or 20 years old when I became serious about photography. I scraped up money to buy my first SLR camera, which was thrilling to achieve as a poor College student. My preferred film was a roll of BxW Ilford 400s. The following Summer, I took a film photography class at UC Berkeley, so I could learn how to develop/print my own film and have unlimited access to the darkroom, which absorbed a good part of that year. BxW can look really moody, which I love, but th