“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.”— Ernest Hemingway

Black and white is a wonderful media for making portraits because the lack of color helps to simplify the image, allowing the viewer to focus on the real subject of the photograph instead being distracted by their clothing or surroundings.

We didn’t know it at the time but Dickens was right. It was the best of times because of the generosity and kindness of John and Dawn Clifford who, for many years, hosted a series of group model shoots where they opened wide the doors to their home and property under the auspices of the Colorado Artists, Models and  Photographers group.

In these special Password Protected posts, I take you behind the scenes of some of my photograph experiences when writing about and creating glamour images for print magazines, the model’s private website or sites that specialized in showcasing uncensored image.

So with all that comparison with vinyl records in mind, do people buy film and not shoot it? I’ll plead somewhat guilty to that because in the recent past I’ve accumulated several boxes of interesting film emulsions that I haven’t shot yet.