You also need to be a little humble in approaching new things. Black and white photography has always had the magic of the darkroom. The first image I see is always in the negative. I read the image in terms of its unseen potential. I've always loved negatives and resented contact sheets.
Negatives hold the mysterious, the unknown, promises.
Being in a more abstract state, they stimulate me to plunge into a larger scale printing process to see the image emerging in the developer, to get out of them what the negative promises. I use anything to achieve expression, and I do all kinds of things with images. In the digital realm, this experimental approach continues and will be seen in the multi-media work in the same show. But when you take a photograph, there is something about that moment that has a sacredness about it. When it comes to color, having been so dependent on the 35mm slide format, I tend to respect that original decision.