
Tag Archives: MWM
I believe in ferries
Late fall close-ups
Oakleaf & raindrop with sunburst Lichen on a cherry tree. Tiny box leaves lit by the sun. Maple samaras. Camelia bud and the stamens from a spent bloom. Rosebud and rosehip.
All of these were converted to black and white using Nik Silver Effects Pro.
North island textures
Sometimes it is the close ups that give you a real sense of place:




Shadows and textures really make the carving below. I think it looks more dramatic in black and white. The colors distract.
We spent a couple of weeks, amazing, delightful weeks, on the north island of New Zealand last January. It feels like more than 11 months ago. We were able to see our son over the Chinese New Year. He went back and while he was in the air going back the state department sent out its “do not travel to China” message. (I have some very pithy ideas about the US state department.)
Seeing him again is not in the cards in the foreseeable future, so I am sooo happy that we had that time right before everything closed down.
Any way you look at it…
My rose is about done now after a windy, rainy week and last light the wind changed and it’s gotten fairly chilly. Still it was a nice little bloom. I’ve been playing with different ways to use the picture of it.
Here are a couple of different black and white treatments. One on the lighter side and one on the darker side.


Since last February I’ve been experimenting a lot with different photo processing methods. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at different ways of creating and using monochrome…you’d think it would be simpler in black and white. But there are so many different ways to take the color out and adjust the light and dark that it seems harder than plain old color. Lately I’ve been rather liking applying the monochrome partially or overlaying the monochrome and color photos with different layer blend modes.
Posted as part of Friendly Friday: Two ways (Actually I used 4) and Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome.
If you take an interest in different photo processing methods you might like to take a look at the one-to-three photo processing challenge, on my other website.

A little Black and White with the tide out

Bren, at Ryan Photography, posted a low tide picture for her Mid-week Monochrome. It got me wondering what the photo I posted for Wordless Wednesday would look like in monochrome.