There is nothing exciting about this image -- other than the fact that it's one of my favorite subjects -- AND -- it's the very first image I processed with MY own hands. I had some help from my classmates -- we all took turns agitating our film canisters -- so that makes this image even more special to me.

I can't begin to explain the feeling you get when you see your own images appear on a contact sheet in the darkroom. It's pure ecstacy for me -- I only wish I would have done this 30 years ago. Now, my wish is to have 30 more years so that maybe someday I'll actually be halfway decent at all of this. God, I love images.

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