Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Shadows & Reflections)
I ran out of room before I ran out of pictures. We must do this one again sometime soon! Shadows are mostly at home. The reflections are on the canal. We are having a very bad drought here right now. The rivers are drying up and the fish, with no place to swim, are dying. The herons fly as far as they must to find food. it was in 2016 that the eagles left, moving north to the Merrimack which is a bigger, deeper river. This is the worst drought since 2016 when you could see the bottom of the rivers – all mud and sand. There was barely a trickle. These were taken in June, when we still had water. We need some rain soon. Meanwhile, let’s look back on the river when its still waters reflected shadow and light.
Faded reflection of the river and bridge
Photo: Garry Armstrong
Painted, faded river and bridge
Shady backyard
Shade and fuchsia
Shady Duke
Faded daylilies
Reflections in the Canal
Categories: Black & White, black & white photography, Blackstone River, Photography, reflection
Absolutely gorgeous gallery, Marilyn! The first one is my favorite! It looks like it belongs on a postcard! 🙂
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Thank you. That nostalgic look always looks like a 1950s postcard.
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Yes it does! Love it! 🙂
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I really love the character you communicate with the little dog on the porch.
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That’s the Duke. He owns the place, but he lets us live here with him.
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Wed have three members of the royal family of our own. The ‘Queen” is particularly fond of letting us all know who rules the roost….Oh and then there is the cat, but that is whole different level of control.
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Cats do a mind meld. They make you WANT to do their will.
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It is true!!!
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I’ve been rereading Jim Butcher’s “Harry Dresden” series, starting with his most recent one (“Peace Talks”) and reading backward. He has a giant dog and a can named Mouse. He goes into a long discussion of modern house cats being among the most lethal animals on earth, able to eat almost everything and astonishing hunters for their size. I think he must have just lost his own dog because the last book is dedicated to him.
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It is such a sad thing to lose a pet. He is right about cats.
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Beautiful photos, especially the “sepias”!
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I’m trying to be a little looser in the styles I use in black and white. I’m not sure how I feel about the addition of color to black and white photographs. Sepia and other brown-tinged colors have always been “black & white” to me, but the whole faded color thing or one bright color in an otherwise black & white picture? To me that’s not black and white. It’s color. Faded or spot color, but not black & white. So I’m really glad you like the sepia 😀 I like it too.
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Very nice effects, Marilyn.
Leslie
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I was happy I had so much I could contribute. We have a very shady backyard and a shiny river.
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Brilliant entry for this week’s shadow and reflection theme. Thanks so much for playing along 😀
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I would play more often if I got your emails more regularly. I keep unsubsrcibing to all the political stuff, but it comes back. Between the political begging letters, two newspaper subscriptions plus National Geographics, and blogging, it’s really an awful lot of email.
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Lovely.
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Thank you very much 🙂
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When I saw a very small version of photo number 1 in the Reader, I thought it was an eye and that the shadow was going to be eye shadow!!! Imagine my surprise….
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It does look like an eye. And with shadows, it even has lashes. I’ve always called my “eye” bridge. It’s the combination of the arch and its reflection in the river.
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