Maybe it’s indicative of my mood or the scene outside my window or it could be that as I was processing the images they just looked better to me in black and white.
Black and white photography is a powerful medium. I’ve had a lot of people tell me that a black and white image can move them emotionally much more than a color image can. My friend Dana says that black and white images are always more interesting than color.
I’d like to say that I shot these images with the intent of converting them to black and white. Some of my images that would be a true statement, that I had black in white in mind when I took them. That is not the case with this series. The first image I processed is the last one in this post and it just looked more interesting to me in black and white.
So then I processed the image above and it too looked better in black and white. So who am I to go against a trend. 🙂 With all do apologies to Julian Dubuque, his monument got the B&W treatment as well not particularly because it looked better but hey by the time I got to it I was in a black and white mode.
Earlier (before going to the monument) we had gone to the river’s edge by the softball complex and while looking at the river (hoping a barge would come by) there were two guys who pulled up in their truck and got their fishing gear out.
By the time we got up to the monument I had forgotten about them. I was looking up the river and saw one of them standing on this small pier fishing and that for me was the shot of the day. No I don’t mean my 365 shot of the day, just the best of all the shots I took this day.
This was the one, when I framed it up in the view finder that made me think WOW! But when I was in post processing I didn’t get that same feeling until I made it black and white.
I hope you enjoy your Tuesday and that it is filled with glorious color. Thanks for stopping by and be careful.
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