So much for writing...

[cairistiona]

Brain is still fogged, but the sun was at the right angle, so I took the camera out to the garden to play around with black and white photography, something I've not dabbled in much. But I wanted to focus on the shape and form of a flower, in this case a peony, which tends to be my floral muse each year. I can't resist playing with images of them.

Before we get to the b&w images, a color one that I took yesterday. The day was cloudy, with diffuse light that didn't provide enough contrast for good black and white images, though I do love how soft the bloom looks in color:



Today the sunshine was very bright, which, as I hoped, lent itself well to more drama:



This next one is a bloom well past its prime. In color, it's drab, all the pink faded to dull white with brown spots, and overall it looks about as you'd imagine. But I think it gets a new lease on life in black and white:

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[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I rather like b&w photography, both for the challenge of taking decent ones (it's harder than it looks) and for the sort of graphic quality of it. You focus on form and texture more than color, and that's a nice change now and then.