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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I try to keep my filters simple. I don't do anything major to my photos.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
