J D Nolan was a late comer to the artist field. He took his first lesson in photography at age 54. All he wanted to do was learn how some photographs were all sharply in focus and some were partly in focus and some were out of focus. But his first teacher thought he had an eye for photography and pushed him into entering a school show. He got 4 of his images selected. From there he studied with three men who were associated with Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams was the reason he chose photography and has been a big influence on his work. He works only in black and white using film and doing all his processing in a wet darkroom. He has been using a 4 × 5 large format camera for more than 13 years. He prints everything on fiber based paper and selenium tones all prints. He mounts and mats all his photographs on 100% rag board. He says that he likes black and white film because with color one color may stand out and take over the picture, but with black and white it is about tonality. Everything has to be black, gray or white so everything in the picture becomes important. By taking the color out he likes to say that he is photographing the soul of what he sees.
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