From the archives.

The bark abstracture below is from the first roll of b+w  35mm film I'd  exposed on my return to black and white photography with the recently renovated Leica M4 rangefinder.  I'd bought the 35mm Ilford Pan F Plus by mistake -- I'd  meant to buy a roll of  400 ASA  film -- and so   I was stuck with a 36 roll of slow film. 

This was at a time I when I was starting the process of re-learning to see in black and white and  this slow film was seen as a handicap.  So it took the form of  an experiment.  This picture is from the same  roll of film as well as these. 

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