Mono-Minimalism

This week Ritva has set a challenge in the Lens-Artists series, to show minimalist photography in monochrome. It’s a great idea for a challenge and is the sort of photography that gets me thinking. I’ve taken one or two yesterday and also been searching my back catalogue for images that would fit the requirement.

So I’m looking for simple clean mono images with only a few elements that in some way have an aesthetic feel to them. I do like this idea.

Firstly, below is just a shrub sticking up out of the ice in a frozen pond. It seems so abandoned by the elements and you wonder if it will ever recover.

Ice and snow seem ideal for landscape images for this minimalist topic

But then looking into manmade objects, I’ve seen loads of subjects that would fit this genre. This next one is a much lower key shot, and I really appreciate the geometry.

That’s a children’s slide taken in a local park, exposed for the highlights.

The next was taken in the same park. I don’t know quite why it appealed to me.

It’s as found and is a bit different in that the twig had fallen on a pile of chainsaw shavings lying there after a fallen tree had had to be removed.

Next a low key landscape, taken down at the coast.

And finally that featured image, a little glass ornament, a cat. It’s about two inches high, and I sat it on a upturned glass in front of our TV screen, giving a background of the ice in coverage of the European Ice Skating Championships – —so back again to ice.

If you enjoy seeing this type of photography, you can start by having a look at Ritva’s initial post for the Lens-Artists Challenge #381 “Minimalism in Black-and-White Photography”. To access Ritva’s post just Click Here