The Frame is 
always
composing.

     I am a film photographer.  Life moves a frame at time for me, each frame considered and calculated.  Life's events are segmented by rolls.  The rolls tell many stories all the while revealing one truth.  I have knowledge of light and an instinct for it.  I have to know of various films and how they will interact with lighting situations I encounter.  My ISO is set and can't be changed to make shooting easier.  Just like my values and ethics.  I the photographer adapts, not the broad range of settings on a digital device or a modern compact zoom.  I simply move closer as I was taught.  I see the world in grain not 1's and 0's or in filters or programs.  Patience is my ally.  I await for the plot to reveal itself. A secret for my lens to discover.  It is not a race to post or a rush to end the journey.  The journey is part of the art. The film camera and I exist as one.  I even think with it when it's not around my neck.  I feel it's view within me.  The frame is always composing and recomposing again and again.  It's a hit and miss game with no guarantees.  Failures visit me like old friends reminding me of past lessons and introducing brand new ones.  I am forever grateful to failures.  They are the unexpected gifts that can sting but awaken my inner desire to try, try again.  I have found that some frames I have viewed as failures in time become beautiful.  The frame remained the same but it was the photographer that changed.  My work is my self portrait.  To really know me is to look carefully at what I shoot, how I shoot and why I shoot.  It is there you will find both my light and my darkness.  You'll find who I love and who I miss.  You see the places as I have seen them yet you'll feel your own way about them and me.  I seek out old expired film knowing it might not ever develop into my hopes.  It is worth the visit.  For me the rougher the better, scratched blurred, damaged and faded,reflects the world as it is, no matter how shiny, new and polished todays photographers try to make it.  I am the teller of my own truth.  I am a film photographer.