Fall is the season where I get back into the darkroom and get back to basics. When I teach beginning photography classes I start out in the darkroom making photograms. Not only do I get to play with how light interacts with the shape and translucency of objects, but I also get to explore the use of hand brush strokes and droplets to control where the developer brings out the image.
Photograms help me go back to the foundations of design and to see the world as simplified graphic shapes. I made the image above using nothing more than a piece of bubble wrap.
The image below is a more traditional fall subject matter.
