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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge theme is black and white or sepia tones. Now that’s quite a challenge for me because I shoot all my photos in color and I pick my subjects because of their specific colors and tones. I’m not an Ansel Adams fan either. I think Mother Nature spent a lot of time assigning colors to each of her small parts, so I often feel the lack of colors on some photos doesn’t give nature enough credit for the great job she did.
I had to dig through all of my photos and find a few that I thought would look good in black and white. I have no idea if I pulled it off, so you’ll have to let me know what you think.
Remember you can click on each photo below to see a larger version of it.
This is a small stream in Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California. I still have to do a post on the several photos I captured that day. I think water may be something that looks OK in black and white, especially when it flows fast.
I tried to use a photo of rain clouds and make it black and white for this exercise. Here is the original post of these creepy crawly clouds over the San Diego hills.
This next photo is a sunrise where the sun tried very hard to pierce through the clouds. It created an orange yellow glow mixing with the gray clouds that was just gorgeous. I’m not too crazy about the lack of color of this photo, knowing how beautiful the colors of the original sunrise were.
I found the tree below at Balboa Park. I love all the giant thorns poking out of its trunk and I think the black and white format doesn’t take anything away from the original.
This is my former neighbors’ cat. She’s dark gray with bright green eyes. I think most animals and people can look beautiful on black and white photos. Isn’t she a cutie? I want to caption this photo “the great horned owl cat”.
I took this last photo at the San Diego Zoo. These are two brother bears – grizzly bears – enjoying some cuddling and hugging time. I used the color photo to participate in the Project 365 -2013 on Facebook and I hope to feature it in an upcoming post. The white at the bottom is actually snow the zoo keepers made for the bears that day.
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These look great in black and white! I especially love the pointy tree and the water stream. Lovely.
Oh, thank you! I’m no Ansel Adams and I don’t plan to even try, but it was a really good exercise for me. I had to stretch my boundaries to pick the right photos to rip the colors out of!
Your black and whites are beautiful!!! Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you, Cee! It was definitely a good challenge for me to take part in.
That cat is stunning in B&W Milka and I like the deep conversation the two quiet bears are having – so touching!
Thank you! I figure a gray cat would turn OK in black and white. 🙂
The brother bears were such a treat to observe as they were hugging and snuggling with one another.
Amazing!
Thank you very much!