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? Steve Barry wrote: > ??? And even though I'm strictly a color shooter, my all-time favorite > book is Echoes Down the Canyon by Mr. Benson. I hate "me too" posts, so to join Steve and Don, I'll say "me three".? "Echoes down the Canyon" is one of my all time favorite RR books also. I love B&W photography and practice it faithfully...not only in rr photography but in other personal documentary projects that I'm working on.? I enjoy working in the darkroom and find the printmaking process to be as satisfying as the negative making.? I do shoot plenty of color and I enjoy many of the color rr books. I know I am in a minority with my devotion to black & white but I don't care.? I do it for me and if someone else likes it...fine.? Black and white gives me the most satisfaction artistically but I'm glad we have color too. I think this thread started out dealing with what to shoot in grubby weather.? Now, good light is good light, whether you are shooting color or black and white but with b&w I can make a good picture in anything from rain to sunshine.? Black & white can be very powerful in communicating, have a look at David Plowden's latest book "Imprints". (Borders or Barnes & Noble should have it)? Has some trains images in there as well as other images, all in black & white.? Plowden started out a plain old foamer like the rest of us but took the whole concept much farther...and made a life's work of it. Mike Gardner ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message ? 1998 SPORRS? - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
