I love to sing and listen to music, to eat tasty food and smell the aroma. I love the look and feel of my wife's face.

But I'm a black and white photographer, already. What do the five sense have to do with that? I see the image in the viewfinder, I hear and feel the satisfying click of the shutter, I feel the film as it glides through my fingers onto the developing reel, I smell the developer and fixer, I even taste the glass of beer I have set off to the side while I'm down by the basement sink developing the film.

But what does all that have to do with you, the person sitting in front of your computer reading my blog and looking at my photographs?

Quite a lot, I hope.

Sight is certainly the only one the the basic five involved in viewing a photograph; it's the portal, and as the photographer I have to make full use off it. There are, however, other senses waiting on your side of the portal. If you feel the cold on your face or smell and taste the bay breezes or hear the crunch of the snow, it's because what you see has triggered something inside. Your mind and heart and memory supply what the photograph by itself can only hint at.

And for that I give thanks.

Entrance to a gated community down the hill by the bay.

Argus C3 "Brick"
Kodak 100 TMax 35mm film
Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner