Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:
Made by Humans
MANMADE BY HUMANS – BLACK & WHITE CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge:
Category: black & white photography
BEWARE THE HORNS! CEE’S BLACK & WHITE CHALLENGE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Horns
I didn’t have much in the way of horned critters in my heap of pictures. Just a few goats and the local cows who sometimes have horns, and sometimes, have them shaved down. I suppose it depends on if they like to fight with them or not. Got a great shot of two goats head-butting, but I’m not sure either of them has horns.
Considering the enthusiasm with which they were going at it, maybe it’s just as well if they didn’t! The cows, on the other hand, were placidly bovine and seem disinclined to do anything other than munch on grass and lie on the cool ground under a tree.
As usual, some are Garry’s and the others are mine.
CONSTRUCTION! – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Construction Related
I really wanted pictures of road construction because it’s everywhere from early spring until well into the fall. But I never seem to have the pictures. I don’t know why. I think it’s the frustration of not being able to travel anywhere.
I wouldn’t mind the construction if it lasted more than half a season, but they do such a miserable job, it barely lasts out one season before they have to do the whole job over again.
Our tax money more or less at work!
FAR AWAY IN BLACK & WHITE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In the Distance
Distant. Okay, distant. It’s hard to take distant photography around here. No high points on which to stand, so I had to go back to pictures I took in more wide open spaces.
It’s not such a bad thing, though. I have lots of pictures from which to choose. Pictures from Arizona and Vermont, among other places will provide long distance photographs.
In black & white, of course.
FUN FOTOS IN BLACK AND WHITE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and White
Black and white … well, that’s easy enough. I avoided the temptation to make all the pictures of birds, probably because all the pictures I’ve taken recently have been ice, snow, or birds.
Mostly … birds.
So I only made three bird photographs. The rest of the pictures are other things, including ice and snow because we have quite a bit of it right now.
The funniest thing about this picture is that me and my friend Ben took the same identical picture. He was sure this was his until he realized that mine was taken with a camera on 180 dpi and his would have been 350 … yet they were identical in every detail. All I could think of was we stood in the same place and framed the picture the same way.
BLACK & WHITE: UNUSUAL PERSPECTIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Unusual Perspective
It was a heavy eating day or the birds. It’s cold — which always makes them hungry — and it’s the day after filling the feeder.
The birds live in the forsythia hedge. There used to be maybe a dozen birds in those hedges. Now there are dozens, as well as up in the trees so as one bird starts eating when the next bird (do they take numbers like in the deli department in the grocery?) is ready, he flies down, knocks the current bird off the feeder and grabs a seed.
This relay happens so fast, I’m rarely able to catch it except by accident. Literally, one second there are two birds on the feeder and a second later there are two different birds there. They are very, very fast.
Some birds hang onto the feeder better than others. One Warbler wouldn’t move for at least 15 minutes. On the whole, Woodpeckers and Nuthatches are the best hangers-on.
Also, the Titmice are very picky about what they will eat and like to toss the pieces they don’t like into the air … and the Chickadees like to dive off tree limbs and the feeder.
Wings closed, they just dive and don’t start to fly until they get near the ground. Most of the other birds fly off the feeder. Chickadees just dive.
Nuthatches eat upside down. Some of the birds like to lie in the seeds and just eat reclining.
BLACK & WHITE GEOMETRIC PHOTOGRAPHY – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Geometry!
Geometric? I was okay at geometry, but when it morphed into trigonometry, I got lost. I had no idea what it was about. What were those numbers for?
Until I read a few books about sailing. I discovered it was a way of calculating the distance on water, taking into consideration the curve of the earth (take THAT you flat-earth people).
