Darkroom Days - 1960's

In the early 1960s I bought a used large format camera, set up a darkroom in the basement of our home in Massachusetts and began taking and developing black and white photographs. Here are some of the artsy photos I made at that time.

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Chalice and Grapes

During my ministerial days I often used this pewter chalice in serving Communion.

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Tree Stump 

Designs in nature was a big thing  then and I would walk in the woods looking for nature’s art.

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Maynard’s Window

Maynard’s barn was next to the house and I was struck by the juxtaposition of the window, its broken glass, and the barn boards.

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St. John’s River, Jacksonville, Florida

I taught for a year at The Bolles School in Jacksonville. This is the river with the sunset on the river behind the school.

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Primordial Soup

Again the sun on The St. John’s River. It looks like the primordial soup that gave us life.

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Lettuce #1

Design is where you find it and I kind of liked the interplay of light and dark on  this simple head of  lettuce.

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Lee at the Window

There will be a section on portraits but I couldn’t resist this photo of a pensive Lee (my daughter) at the age of three in 1967.