Lemme tell you a story of a feisty (some might say cantankerous) gentleman who spent 30 years in the cube farm, with coffee stained carpet under foot, and fluorescent lighting overhead, and a computer keyboard at hand. He started doing photography (he abhors the gun metaphor) in the early 1970's and has mainly used 35mm and 4x5. He was staunchly and adamantly a film user until late 2021 when the lack of a darkroom, the high cost of color film, and the difficult and expensive logistics associated with having it processed and printed coaxed him to consider trying digital. He had the singular good fortune to retire four years ago at age 55 and now lives a simple life on a ridiculously small income in a ramshackle old house in the hinterlands of California and quite content to drink coffee, hike in the mountains, eat cinnamon rolls, be humbled and awed by nature, visit friends and family, study literature, and film, and history, take an occasional road trip, go to an opera or a museum of fine art or natural history once in a while ... and, maybe, one day, write a screen play. At this point in his life, photography is mostly about capturing memories - tiny, meaningful moments in time. He's not so fussy about the details any more.
