"How The Sausage Is Made"

"How The Sausage Is Made, Owl's Head, Arizona" (c) 2000, 2016 Stu Jenks.

There is nothing like a failure to show how I make my nocturnal images.

That's me in shorts on the left. The zippo flame painting didn't work well in this exposure so I stopped painting halfway through. Exposure time is around a couple minutes. Usually my film exposure are around 15 minutes, half that on digital. Shot on a full moon night. Black and white negative printed in a chemical darkroom on color paper.

And I disappear in long exposures because the moonlight erases most of me. But you can still see, in this failed exposure, that I have nice legs.