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:

Comments

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Black and white certainly gives new lease to otherwise so-so pics! I remember taking a B&W pic of my kid's rickety old bike which had gone rusty with the trainer wheels almost off, the pic turned out almost a masterpiece ( if I may say so heheh )!

Yours are absolutely gorgeous, the first one, too.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

B&W has an artistic quality to it that sometimes color does have... not that color can't also be artistic, of course. :D But I find b&w has a way of making ordinary things into much higher art than you'd think... like old rusty bikes. *g*

Glad you liked these!