As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall . . . while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.
I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.
The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives.
I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.
The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.
From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.
I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.
In the past, there were many times when I thought, 'This photo doesn't look good with a low angle, or this part bothers me.'
I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
