Today in the studio, I was inspired by the gray fog to photograph sea shells in black and white. While positioning the shells in the correct spot, it dawned on me that I haven’tcreated any images in black in white since I was in photography school. Wow, how I yearned for those days of spending hours in the darkroom processing and waiting with anticipation. Today I used the program Photoshop. After processing the images from raw to a tiff format I worked with using the hue/saturation tool along with curves tool to create the same process as the traditional version of the black and white process. While Photoshop will never take the place of the smell, exhaustion and wonder from traditional black and white processing, it does satisfy the soul of a thought-provoking black and white image. 
