Helmut Newton once said that, The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl.” I think he had a point!

today is National Cat Lady Day and if you own–I don’t thing anyone “owns”–a cat; it may be the other way round. You already know that there isn’t a day that goes by when you don’t celebrate your animal companion!

It should surprise no one that Discover Yourself Through Photography was written in 1971 and if there’s just more than a bit of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” in Hattersley’s writing and more than a bit of the reflection of the times—times I used to consider the most creative in my life—when it was written, which may be before some readers of this blog were born.

While today’s post isn’t strictly about film photography, it does provide some background on my evolution from film photography to digital (and maybe back?)

In my photographic lifetime I must have photographed hundreds of brides. Most of the images of them were in the traditional church setting with their gown’s train spread all around her, much as in my own mother wedding photographs were made before WWII. But somewhere around the late 1970′ s all that changed…