These three photos  were  made whilst on a photowalk in the Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park with Adam and Michael  Duttkiewicz and a couple of  their friends at the time.   This would have been a decade or more ago.  It would have been  around the time when I was still living in the city,   re-learning to photograph  in black and white,  and experimenting in seeing in b+w.   

I have not looked at these  files for a decade or more,  as the quality of some of these b+w negatives was poor.  I was embarrassed as they  were underexposed, overdeveloped, and  clumsily  composed.    

The scanning by the lab  was  done for the appearance of digital and not  for analogue -- it was  over-sharp.   The software that I had at the time  (an early version of Lightroom, if I recall )  was  basic, and  I couldn't do much  editing the scanned files.    I did go and buy my own scanner as I wanted the  softer appearance/presence  of  film. 

 I didn't bother to go through these archival  files  to see what is actually there.  I dismissed them and forgot about these archives.    Until now.  

I was curious to see  these  early attempts/experiments to see in b+w and to make b+w analogue photos. Were they as bad as I remembered  I wondered?  Would  they get better with  the various experiments?

 It was a journey  and as I  gained confidence with photographing in  b+w, the  images  slowly  evolved  into their own autonomy. It wasn't nostalgia for the analogue past, since what  emerged from the experiments was  a different way of looking at the world around me.