I've only dabbled in black and white photography over the years, mostly from way back when I was taking darkroom classes and only printed in black and white. This photo was from my snowy walk last month up in Maryland and it is the first time I've ever won anything for a B&W -- a third place in a photo club competition!
Earlier this week I sat in on a talk about black and white photography earlier sponsored by a different photo club, the first in a series of five. There is something very satisfying about stripping out distractions and focusing on the simplicity of a B&W image. Light, shape, texture, form, composition.
It's silly but I keep thinking about the less literal meaning of seeing things in black and white. No nuances; things are either good or evil, right or wrong. Life, though, is messy and complicated and usually not able to be stripped down and simplified. But a photo can be and I'm looking forward to playing with this some more.
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