For the Lens-Artist Challenge this week, Donna of Wind Kisses asks us to “think about what time looks like through the eye of YOUR lens.”
That’s quite a different challenge and I find it hard to be clear in my own mind about it. Every photograph captures a moment in time. So I’m thinking that every photograph is taken at that particular point in spacetime. The right place at the right time and taken for the right length of time.
more imagesWhy do you choose to use monochrome? The chimpanzee is puzzled too. But more of him later……
So, as soon as I got to the hill, I looked at the sky and thought, ‘Black and white’. It’s just like that sometimes. Straight away you know that you feel a mono image should work and the drama of the sky was a decider here.
More monochrome imagesI’ve just been reading in the BBC History magazine about a wealthy lady of the 17th century, whose abusive and estranged husband successfully challenged her will following her decease. He claimed that she was not of sound mind when she left all her property to her cousin. Among the evidence he cited of her madness was that she was obsessed with the collection of butterflies and moths.
Continue reading “Butterfly Collecting”I thought I’d captured too much in this image and that focussing in on parts of the view might have been better. However, a bit of work to even out the exposure seemed to help. I was pleased with the way the sky came out and I like it enough to get it printed up. And it worked out as a mono which is good because it was pretty drab in colour.
Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge – which you can link to HERE. This also gives you info on how to join in to the challenge.
Tomatoes and Strawberries, Raspberries and Red Peppers. The Red Flag and Stop signs. The Red Cross and the Red Arrows. Seeing red and anger and danger and Emergency Stop Buttons. The Red Sea and the Red River Valley. Red Admirals, Simply Red and Ninety-nine Red Balloons
Much more hereOne 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
Did your mum never tell you to keep your head down?
Offered in response to Leanne’s Monochrome Madness challenge
These bollards are a security measure in front of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. Taken a number of years ago but I always liked this one.
It’s one of those photographs that you know is meant for a monochrome presentation.
“And here they are!
“Bringing them into this world wasn’t exactly easy. Remember, we had to start back at the end of winter. Well, that bit at least was fun. My bristling feather display was really something else, wasn’t it?
Continue reading “Work in Progress”Well, we haven’t been able to go off on holiday for a long time now (there’s just reasons for that – it can’t be helped). Most of my photos are taken within 25 miles of home. But even then I can still escape the norm for a while. This week a group of friends and myself took our cameras down to an old haunt on the Ayrshire coast – to the village of Dunure.
Continue reading “An Evening at the Coast”
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