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Throughout the history of photography, there have been many articles and books written about the rules of composition that purport to offer a path to creating a perfectly composed image.

As a creative medium, what traditionalists call “monochrome” some digital imagers prefer “grayscale,” but it’s still black and white to me. But there is more to black and white photography than just an absence of color.

I’ve always believed that photography was the universal language and somewhere during its 150 years of existence it has evolved a language of its own. Back in the pre-digital days when certain people became more obsessed with the camera, lenses and photographic ephemera than they were with the images that the cameras created, they were called equipment freaks or sometimes equipment snobs.

Over the years I’ve had some memorable portrait sessions with some wonderfully talented models and I’m often asked about my favorite portrait from these sessions.

When I first arrived in Colorado in February of 1981, one of the first places that one of my new friends took me to was The Garden of the Gods. What is that, you ask? The Garden of the Gods is a public park that’s located in Colorado Springs and was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.

So as the title says: Why Expired Film? I believe that there are at least two reasons why people shoot expired film. As Mary always said there is always a good reason and then there is the real reason.