Posted on January 16, 2022
This week, I present a rare example of me multi-tasking. The image of these swans was captured by the lake next to Linlithgow Palace and it fulfils the criteria not only for Cee’s Midweek Challenge, where the prompt was ‘white’, but also her Black & White Challenge, for which the theme was ‘birds’.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Birds
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, CMMC, Linlithgow, swans, White
Posted on January 8, 2022
This is the little hand of our grand-daughter, aged about eight weeks.
Category: Black & White Tagged: Baby, Black & White, Close-up, CMMC, Family, Hand
Posted on December 24, 2021
Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is animals, either wild or farmed. We are encouraged to be creative, however, so here is an image of an elaborate wall hanging that’s on display in the Japanese galleries of the Victoria & Albert Museum (the V&A) in London.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Farm or wild animals
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Black And White Photography, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, elephants, Japanese, V&A
Posted on December 17, 2021
I would strongly advise against trying to negotiate your way across these rocks on the shore at Pittenweem. There are surely easier ways to break an ankle.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Bumpy or Lumpy
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, bumpy, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Pittenweem, Rocks, seashore
Posted on December 3, 2021
The white tiled background gives you a fair idea of which room in a Scottish hotel this particular example of decorative carrosserie is to be found.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Matching Things
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Symmetry, Tiles
Posted on November 26, 2021
A few sets of impressive’looking horns on view here in this group of oryx at Al Ain Zoo in the United Arab Emirates.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Horns
Category: Black & White Tagged: Al Ain Zoo, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Horns, oryx
Posted on November 21, 2021
Fishing boats at anchor in the inner harbour of Pittenweem.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: On Water
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, boats, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, fishing boats, Pittenweem, Water
Posted on November 13, 2021
There is something faintly threatening in this silhouette of a French military helicopter against a backdrop of looming clouds. Not to worry though, it was only at a nearby air display a few years ago.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything That Flies
Category: Black & White Tagged: Air Show, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Helicopter, Silhouette
Posted on October 29, 2021
Looking from one Scottish fishing to another – Pittenweem towards St. Monan’s – the setting sun highlights the top of a fence, which really makes the shot.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Vanishing Point
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Clouds, Leading Lines, Scotland, St. Monan's, sunset, Vanishing Point
Posted on October 17, 2021
You could, of course, drive any of the vehicles in this image, but there is no doubt that the real star is the already iconic Forth Crossing that links Edinburgh with the Kingdom of Fife.