I am not a particularly well organized person. However, my negatives and accompanying contact sheets are in pretty good order, and usually I can find what I am looking for pretty fast; In contrast, my digital files are a mess. Not only that, when I take photos with my digital camera, I usually discard/delete the ones I don’t like. If I did that with my negatives, I would not have this great treasure of old stuff, that becomes more valuable to me as time goes by.
This photo of Diana is a good example. It is one of my earlier WaterWomen photos, and Diana is showing me, and letting me photograph, the horrendous scar she got when she burned her arm in a clam processing machine. She had 3rd degree burns on her right arm. To get to the hospital, she plunged her arm into an ice chest, and drove her pick-up truck 60 miles to the nearest hospital. She was pretty nonchalant about the scar & when I took this series of photos, I was disappointed when I developed them. Now I think they are pretty fine, and I will incorporate them into the portfolio.
