
Monochrome Monday
Mothers will always love and care for their kids, but every now and then the young ones might need a little push.

Mothers will always love and care for their kids, but every now and then the young ones might need a little push.
Recently there have been a few shots that led me to think more about the different ways to photograph a wild flower. I thought perhaps by making some note of these ways I might remember them for the future, and so improve the images I produce.
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This is a relatively new visitor to our garden – a young grey tabby and a very nervous little cat too. It has lost one of its back legs but that certainly doesn’t slow it down one iota.
I always think that images that contrast Blue and Yellow work particularly well, like the image of a newly painted warehouse above, even though theory says the Blue – Orange is a true complimentary colour pairing.
I recall a famous quote that says that a portrait shot in colour shows the person’s clothes, but take a portrait in monochrome and it shows the person’s soul.
It’s a great quote, and I’m beginning to think the same theory applies to sports photography. Colour is great for showing the glamour and the visual impact, but a black and white image really seems to show more of the soul of the sport.
more photographsI’ve picked out these two images in response to SandyL’s Friendly Friday Challenge. The subject Sandy chose is ‘Friendship’.
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