The BBC's "In Pictures" page hosts regular features with photographs from all over the world; some from professional photographers, some from anyone who wishes to contribute or enter. They recently published a feature titled "Your pictures on the theme of 'monochrome'."
Black-and-white photography has always interested me. As a young man I had a fairly extensive camera outfit, first an Olympus OM-1, then a Nikon system, and did a lot of work in monochrome. I enjoyed the challenge of expressing what I saw without referencing a color palette, particularly when it came to portraiture and the human body. Therefore, I was very interested to look through the photographs in the BBC's article. This one, in particular, caught my eye. It's titled "A pelican making a splash." Click the image for a much larger view.
That's a fascinating interplay of feathers, droplets and the surface of the water. The photographer must have been in exactly the right place at just the right time to capture it. I envy him!
The other photographs in the article are also well worth viewing. Open each one in a new tab or browser window to magnify them to full size.
While you're there, check out the other articles listed on the "In Pictures" page. There are several very good ones.
Peter
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At fourteen a neighbor photojournalist moved to Singapore and gave me his darkroom. Huge French Imperator enlarger and a lot of Ilford and Agfa paper, chemicals, bulk film, tanks, trays, everything. With a borrowed Leica M3, and later a Minolta SRT 101 I tried to emulate the photographers in the Life coffee table books. When you saw what Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White could do in black and white there was no hurry to color.
rick m
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That is a stunning photo which made me think of these photo's I've saved.
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