Monochrome Madness – Window

One of my favourite mono images. It’s one of the many exotic windows at the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, showing a reflection of the Queen’s Gallery at Holyrood Palace.

Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge – which you can link to HERE

Bracken in Winter

Well, the sun is out today … at least a little, but recently we’ve had some dark days. The days are shorter nearing the solstice. Even the recent news about vaccines hasn’t lifted the mood much. And my outing to the country park didn’t produce much in the way of photographic opportunities either. I still saw something I hadn’t seen there before – a large grey heron gliding down the centre of the narrow river staying one metre off the water surface with barely a flap of its wings, and disappearing round the bend. It appeared all too suddenly and much too fast to capture.

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Scramblers at Drumlanrig

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.

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