In 2003 I shot my final roll of film. From that point on I was pixelated. I love digital photography---the ease and convenience are wonderful. But even though I had stopped shooting film, I was cursed with a big backlog of undeveloped black-and-white film.

Since 1977---and possibly even earlier---I shot about 80 rolls of black-and-white film and let them accumulate in shoe boxes. With the switch to digital came the realization that something had to be done about the undeveloped rolls. (DUH!) Thus began the process of organizing and developing the rolls.

Before going into the darkroom I asked a technical person at Kodak for advice about developing old film. (This was years before Kodak went backrupt.) He recommended an increase in development time for these older rolls, but to expect a degradation in the amount of contrast in the images. It worked: the pictures came out relatively well, considering the length of time they had been sitting around.

From late 2004 to spring 2006 they all got developed, thanks to the wonderful help of my buddy Kris Frederick, who offered to make available his home darkroom and his expertise to solve my "problem."

At the time when I created this gallery, I still had to make contact sheets of all the developed rolls of film. That job finally was completed in August 2013, thanks to a heroic effort by Kris Frederick. (Thanks, Kris!). We arranged a bartering deal to compensate him for his trouble.

The next step is to digitize selected images and post them on the Web.