I was searching for some information on shooting black and white film and I came upon this site by the photographer Jerry Gay. I got into photography seriously in the early 1970s. One of the photographers whose work I admired at that time was a local photographer for the Seattle Times — Jerry Gay. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a picture of some firemen. I haven't heard of him for some time and it's nice to see he is is still taking his wonderful black and white pictures.

Jerry Gay

Students block traffic during an anti-Viet Nam war demonstration.

This is not really a representative picture. It's his people pictures that I love the most. This was a news picture. I used it because I remember this well. I was one of those "students." Check out Jerry's book Everyone Has a Life to Live: An American Portrait.