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Michael Crouser: Dog Run (cont.)

He also shot the book entirely with film, using a Nikon F4 camera and Kodak Professional Tri-X film.

"If you consider photography your personal art, which I do, then the media you use and the tools that you use are as important as the subjects you use. Working in the darkroom, with Tri-X film and the Nikon cameras, producing black-and-white imagery, that feels personal."

For what he calls his "professional" photography, which includes commercial and editorial projects, "I shoot in a lot of different mediums for a lot of different media," he said. "I've shot everything from 8-by-10 Polaroids to digital to black-and-white film."

For digital photography he mostly uses a D2X. "I'm comfortable with Nikon cameras and have been using them my whole life. The D2X is very reminiscent of the F4 film camera that I use. It feels familiar to me. Obviously there's a lot to learn when you make the jump to digital. But it's still a Nikon camera and it feels like a Nikon camera. It wasn't really a big jump."

Next up for Crouser is a study of cattle ranching in Colorado, another study in black and white.

"It's all about the disappearing world of cattle ranching done in the old-fashioned manner. They still do all their work on horseback and brand with branding irons and hot fires and wear the cowboy clothing that's functional but also traditional. They live a rancher/cowboy kind of life that I find very fascinating for many of the same reasons I do many of my subjects."

Sound like a lot of work? That's not how Crouser approaches it.

"There's a difference between working and working on something. This is just what I do. This is just who I am. I will always do this kind of thing. It's how I live and what I do with my time, go make photos. Making photographs is continually fascinating to me."