Robert, that Monochrom was not wasted in your hands. Great shots.
Thank you, Richard.
Since moving across the USA I’ve been photographing less, posting less, but reworking my development process and tonal values more. Some changes are more or less global shifts in slider values—highlight, shadow, contrast, color channel luminance in BW conversion—; others are ‘mindset changes,’ like using the radial filter instead of graduated/brush filters. (Some changes, like color channel luminance tweaks, are refreshingly irrelevant to the M246.)
It’s a slow, deliberate revision of hundreds and ultimately thousands of images, because I’m Luddite enough to do it one image at a time (rather than applying presets), and one camera at a time (because long ago I organized my LR catalog by camera). A good project for the life of the images beyond my life, and for the current viral confinement protocols, and for our indoors AC life in the hottest most humid Carolina summer.
But I’m running low on recent images from certain cameras, like the M246 and M-D 262, and my film cameras are completely idle. When the larger world beyond our small refuge is safer again, I’ll make more distant urban/street pilgrimages as well as landscape/seascape pilgrimages to make new images which, I hope, will also be more consonant with the changes in my developmental values.