[pure-silver] Re: Getting Organized
Next: I deal with every negative I make before I make any more. I either print it or discard it.  In this way I learn from my work. And since I know what I have done I do not repeat myself. At least it is easier not to repeat myself when I know what I have done. A major problem that many photographers have is that they do not deal with their negatives. Ansel Adams had 40,000 unprinted negatives when he died, which is why, I contend, that after awhile he just repeated himself. Edward Weston, on the other hand, printed every negative, or he discarded it. He kept growing as a photographer.
I wish I could print every negative before I make another one. But this isn't practical for me: I shoot in TN during the summer, and then go back to my darkroom in Houston in the fall and spring and print them. So, I don't really know what I've got till I get there and develop the film.
I think that you, Michael, go on fairly long photo shoots too. And Weston was gone for a long time on his Guggenheim trip. So I think you don't mean literally that you print every negative before you make another one, although that would be ideal for learning. I think you mean you don't keep a huge backlog of unprinted negatives. Right? 

--shannon

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