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BLACK AND WHITE, ROUGH AND SMOOTH

By Marilyn Armstrong on 01/31/2015 • ( 14 )

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Textures

Black and white perfect to show off textures. Nothing makes stone, wood, brick, or basketry look crisper than monochrome. I especially love sepia for brick and bark. Here are a few examples.

Arches in Roxbury

Arizona

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Categories: #gallery, #Photography, Cee's Photo Challenge

Tags: black and white, brick, cee's black and white challenge, phtography, stone, texture, wood

14 replies

ashokbhatia
02/01/2015 • 03:52

Good ones!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  02/01/2015 • 10:58
  
  Thanks 🙂
  
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DyingNote
02/01/2015 • 01:33

These are lovely pics. What’s not to love?

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  02/01/2015 • 10:58
  
  Thanks! Thee were all fun to take and came out particularly well in black and white.
  
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nonsmokingladybug
01/31/2015 • 21:12

I have an ongoing love affair with black and white pictures. Great pictures!

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  01/31/2015 • 21:14
  
  I’m always surprised at how well black and white suits some pictures better than color. I guess it takes away some distraction and focuses our attention on form and texture.
  
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  - nonsmokingladybug
    02/01/2015 • 12:33
    
    So true. I love black and white pics of cities or just faces (older faces in particular).
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      02/01/2015 • 12:41
      
      Absolutely. Portraits and urban landscape both do very well in black and white. Many portraits are much more interesting and dramatic in black and white and used to be the industry standard.
      
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Cee Neuner
01/31/2015 • 11:50

That ice is simply amazing. I do like your sepia tones too. Actually I like all of your photos. 🙂 🙂

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  01/31/2015 • 12:20
  
  Thanks. Last winter’s icicles were HUGE. People got killed by falling icicles. Those were just inches outside my office window. I merely opened the top of the window and shot. I don’t think they melted until March.
  
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lifelessons
01/31/2015 • 02:03

Aha!!! I have the perfect one and I even have it in my library. BRB! (I have been suffering Picasa Hell, trying to get pictures to post to my blog, but I can manage this one, perhaps…

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- Marilyn Armstrong
  01/31/2015 • 11:19
  
  I haven’t used Picasa. I think that’s a Mac application. Maybe it’s set to the wrong format? I think WP only accepts jpeg and png.
  
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  - lifelessons
    01/31/2015 • 17:10
    
    Hi M. No, I used iphoto on my Mac, which I loved. Picasa is an internet sharing thingie but to complex for my understanding at this point…Too many things to learn at once. I’ll get there, though. J
    
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    - Marilyn Armstrong
      01/31/2015 • 17:24
      
      I think I looked at it and thought it was too complicated for ME too. I stick with what I know and which does the job. I probably understand less than 5% of Photoshop’s capabilities, but I can do what I need to do. I have some filter sets that do other stuff and since I’m not big on over-processing, there’s a lot of stuff I don’t need.
      
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