There is just something special about black and white photos. Soon after I started photographing professionally, I began working at the first of several newspapers. Color photography was just beginning to show up in some of the larger newspapers at the time, so those who were with newspapers shot most of our work in black and white. That experience was invaluable, as a good black and white photo truly starts in the camera, with a photographer visualizing the contrast range and tones of a scene and shooting it with how it will translate into black and white. I still miss the days of spending literally hours in a traditional darkroom, pulling out dynamic range and tone of a film negative onto a silver emulsion print, but that experience translates into being able to do even more with black and white images in the digital age.