A Photo a Week Challenge: Black & White
From Nancy Merrill:
Looking back through past challenges, I found that I have never done a dedicated black and white challenge. It really surprised me. I love editing in black and white. When I was still shooting with film, I loved using black and white dedicated film, especially for slides. There’s something amazing about black and white images. They are instantly nostalgic and artistic.
IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO OR TWO (OR MORE)
From Arizona, three landscapes and a portrait.
Superstitions
Clouds over the desert
Palms in Phoenix
Garry and the Iron Cowboy
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Categories: #Photography, Arizona, Photo A Week Challenge
NATURAL STRUCTURES – A PHOTO A WEEK CHALLENGE 
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Incredible photos…
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Thank you!
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Well it was very well worth waiting for – this b & w post. Each composition striking in its own particular way. And Garry does indeed look extra-good 🙂
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Garry looks best when he has a prop. Anything. He has to DO something, not just stand there. Maybe that’s true of a lot of people and I never noticed.
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Love these! That is such a good one of Garry, handsome guy! I adore the clouds over the desert…it reminds me of how life looks at times.
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Thank you 🙂 The sky came out pretty spectacular. It’s black & white. It was there and black & white brought it out. As for my guy Garry, he’s my favorite model. He likes looking good, so I work at it.
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Wow! That one with the clouds really caught my eye! I always think that clouds loom so powerfully when depicted in black and white.
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You’re right. Black and white does an amazing job with clouds. Even relatively light clouds really “pop” in black and white.
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These are all so perfectly done, Marilyn. Love the photo of Garry. 🙂 Thanks for joining the challenge!
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Twas a pleasure, my friend 😀
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All great photos, Marilyn.
Leslie
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Thank you,, Leslie 🙂 It feels a little desertish here today.
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Is the sun out?
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It was earlier. Now, it’s kind of overclouded. I think the temps are supposed to drop tomorrow.
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It’s suppose to rain and get cooler here tomorrow.
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It keeps looking like rain, but then the clouds break. Regardless, they’re expecting a 20 degree drop in temps between today and tomorrow.
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Bundle up tonight. I was hoping to get out into the garden tomorrow. Doesn’t look like that is going to work out to well.
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It was what I had planned, too. But it will be a nice week. Cooler, but nice.
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That’s a consolation.
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These are spectacular. Black and white can add eerie, ominous, drama, and capture nostalgia and are very artistic. Fabulous! Yours particularly. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you! They are amazing at making clouds more dramatic, too. Even relatively light clouds can look super dramatic. it’s a very cool feature of black & white 🙂
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I love black and white always have. Mind you the advent of colour was profound, but still there’s a majestic romantic hue to black and white as well as all the other qualities it invokes. Loved your pictures.
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It’s also fabulous for texture and mood.
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Good photo of Garry. The black and white is great to capture his expression.
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Thank you! Black and white is still a very good way to take portraits. Even today, with color ruling the world, a good black & white photo is still top of the line. It’s a little more difficult since our cameras ONLY shoot color.
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