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Blues Knight
Posted on September 23, 2016
Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is looking for an image of two unrelated items. So, here’s a random juxtaposition of a suit of armour and a basket of flowers, seen in the Chateau d’Amboise.
I don’t often use selective colour, but I think it works in this case.
Tuesdays of Texture: Skull
Posted on September 20, 2016
We came across this oryx skull during a safari drive on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Lots of texture here, especially rendered in this high contrast monochrome version:
The Ghaf Tree
Posted on September 16, 2016
In the desert outside Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, this single, isolated, ghaf tree somehow manages to flourish.
Monochrome Mistletoe
Posted on August 26, 2016
The subject for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Trees. Here’s an image of some mistletoe-laden oak trees in a nearby lane. Tilting the camera so that the trees appear diagonally adds a little drama to the image, I think.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Trees
52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 1 – Black & White
Posted on August 12, 2016
The Girl That Dreams Awake is hosting a brand new weekly challenge which I thought I’d try and play along with.
I’m intrigued to see what topics lie ahead for future weeks, but for Week 1 it’s Black & White, so here is another image of Terry’s Triumph to add to the ones that I posted recently in response to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:
Metropolitain
Posted on August 12, 2016
At a fête des fleurs in Magnac-Laval earlier this year, I couldn’t help noticing the shadow thrown by the back of this old chair, which presumably began life (quite a long time ago) somewhere on the Paris Metro. The weatherbeaten textures suit monochrome quite well.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Any Seating, Including Tables and Chairs
Terry’s Triumph
Posted on August 5, 2016
Our friend and neighbour Terry is the proud owner of a beast of a 1740cc Triumph motorcycle, all chrome and black, that he utterly dotes on. It looks like it’s never been out of the showroom. And, since it most definitely has an engine, it seems like a very suitable subject for this week’s Black & White Challenge.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things With Engines Or Motors
To Scale: Sydney Harbour Bridge
Posted on July 29, 2016
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a very large object, so certainly qualifies for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Wikipedia can give you all the statistics, but to get a visual idea of how big it is, look at this image of the central part of the metalwork and consider the fact that those are people standing on top of the structure, immediately below the flags. It’s possible – if you’re that way inclined – to take a tour of the bridge’s superstructure. I imagine the views are spectacular.
Antique
Posted on July 22, 2016
Finding something over 50 years old for this week’s edition of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge isn’t the hard part. Just looking in the mirror solves that problem.
However, to spare all of us the ordeal of a self-portrait, here are three photographs taken in a chateau in Sarlat, which is set up as it might have looked in the sevententh century (way more than fifty years ago).
This old book (Proceedings of the Committee on French Africa – riveting stuff) is artfully placed on a desk, but I liked the cropped version showing the book itself and the (also artfully placed) reading glasses:
Sepia seemed the most appropriate colour cast for this formal dining-room:
But my favourite image is this one. A quasi-impressionist view through some very old window-panes, the antiquity of which is attested by the fact that they’re full of bubbles, showing that they were made in the days before glaziers had mastered the techniques of producing absolutely clear glass in mass-market quantities:
Monochrome: Texture & Contrast
Posted on July 18, 2016
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge has now reached Black & White and as a first stage is focussing on texture and contrast. Here are some images that incorporate both these key elements of monochrome images.
This camellia flower was actually a gorgeous shade of purple, but the monochrome brings out the texture of the leaves very well, while the greater contrast enhances the perception of detail at the heart of the flower :
This little imp sits on an electricity pylon, contrasting well with the texture of the concrete post, in the small hamlet of Bonnefont, quite close to here:
Monochrome also brings out the texture in these carvings from Chartres Cathedral….
…and the contrast in this dramatic skyscape
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