A while back I shot some HDR of my childhood farm... I really love shooting at old farm, as it gets me walking around and thinking about all the time I spent there, the relatives come and gone, and reminds me of how much the farm is embedded into who I am...  When I shot HDR, I was obsessed with the details.... details that illustrated how the farm was falling apart.  My grandmother had just passed, and every crack in the cement, paint chip on the barn, or rusted handle seemed to allude to the overall decay of the farm and the family unit.

 This time though, was different.  First - I shot on Black and white film.  Second, I used a wide angle lens.... The Result: Where I was "exposing" the farm and meticulously pulling negativity out of the subject one exposure at a time from the middle out +1, -1, +2, -2... ....the silver gelatin exposures provided more magestic details... From the sterile wash of chemical bath emerged the suggestion of character, rather than the erosion-feel of HDR.

Maybe it was the medium, maybe it was me..... probably it was a combination of both.

Black and White silver gelatin is the way this place was supposed to be captured... IMO

This one is of the barn where the cows used to live (they've since been upgraded to aluminum....lol), and where I'd help poppa feed them with the old silver tin bucket.  This is where i would run, jump, and play in the hay (until I saw a snake.  Then I'd run away and drink chocolate milk while nanny consoled me.....lol). 

Shot using Ilford HP5, then bleached and washed in sepia toner.  I'm pretty happy with the results.

PEACE.