Ge'e Up And Bar The Door

I grew up with the common misconception that
Black and White is the ART medium of photography.
Color is simply too literal, and (gasp!) commercial.
I justified this snobbery with the argument
that B/W lends itself to a great variation of
controllable contrast, density, and general production
value. Color, it seemed, was either right, or it was
wrong. I knew that this was a wrongheaded notion and I
toyed with the idea of color going beyond the mundane,
but it was also a convenient position to take.
Until I found myself at a session with nothing but
garden variety color print film on hand. Necessity
being the mother of strange bedfellows (or something
like that) some of the old ideas came to mind and I was
successful in experiments that ensued. Since then,
I have engaged in a relentless pursuit of audacious color.