Black and White Photography, Part 2 (And as little less talk about about Tea)

(I have had a soar throat for almost a week now, so I have been drinking some Iced Tea made from Ceylon Sonata tea. The ice cold tea helps.)

 

 

In these two photo's of a close up of some deadwood I think the monochrome photo is almost as interesting as the color photo. My original interest in this subject was the redish color in the interior wood and the texture of the bark and interior. The broken and cracked heartwood created multiple levels allowing light and shadow spaces to form.

The interesting color is lost, but the monochrome style highlights the textures.

 

In this next set of photo's the monochrome photo is better than the color photo.In my opinion. The buried tire's color is a sort of a odd bluish black. The plastic water bottle is a uninteresting frosty white, and the sand is an unusual brown color. None of these colors look good together to me.

The monochrome style changed the tire back to black. The water bottle's color and brightness is toned down, the sand's color looks better and it's grainy texture is more prominent.

 

 

This next site was interesting in ways not shown in the photo. As I paused on the trail to decide if there was a shot here to be taken. I noticed a small bird flying around the stump in small circles. There was also another bird sitting on a branch near by. The bird kept circling and circling. I have a few shots with the bird flying in them but it was mostly a blur. It seemed unhappy with either my presents or the other bird presents.

Then a few minutes later two ducks flew past, going up river. They then swam down river towards the stump but changed coarse when they saw me.

On my return trip past this site a large bumble bee was flying around.

I have walked past this site many times and have not noticed any other wildlife. It seemed today that this site was protected. I took only a few pictures and left.

This time I prefer the color photo. Mainly because of the look of the river water. I have noticed that photo's of the river water look very bland in monochrome. And when there is lots of water in the photo, it dulls the whole photo. I do like how the bark looks but it is not enough to save the photo.

The blue reflected sky on the river in the color photo improves this picture greatly.

 

 

I think I will stop here and write a shorter Part Three this weekend. If this topic is getting boring, let me know in the comments, or email me if you know my address.