the magnificent simon ponder...

Spent a little time over lunch on Saturday in Gruene, Texas with the magnificent Simon Ponder. I wanted to show him how fantastic the new Impossible black and white film looked, so the best way was to take a photo of him. When I raised the camera, he immediately went into "poser mode". It made me think that maybe he has done this before...

the one and only Simon Ponder...

Was excited to hear that Simon was coming to Dallas to go on a Polawalk in Deep Ellum. I have followed his brillance on Twitter for some time (plus he is a fellow Texas Tech alumni), but this was our first time to meet in person. I would have to say that sharing the 8x10 process and fascination of Impossible 8x10 film with fellow photographers is becoming one of my favorite things to do...