PHOTO OF THE MONTH BY DON HUDSON

Photo of the month for March 2023 by Don Hudson, as voted by BME members.

Some words from Don about the photo:

“Since 2010, a few years after shutting down my last darkroom, I have been periodically going through my negatives and contact sheets from the last century looking for images, that for whatever reason, I didn't "see" some 40+ years ago. I have to say it's been fun. This is an image that I never so much as made a work print or even circled on the contact sheet as a possible keeper at the time. But about two weeks ago it caught my contemporary eye. I think partly I was attracted to this image because it made me remember growing up in the late 1950's after our family moved to a new subdivision, and my friends and I would play in the construction sites of new homes. Pretty sure nostalgia had nothing to do with me taking this shot at 28 years old, some 20 years removed from my childhood memories, but now 44 years from this moment, it serves to conjure my long relationship with time.”