Monochromia

Northumberland

Black And White Photography, Ian, Photography

Fields, dry stone walls, and sheep. I love this countryside so much. You can see this photo and more like it in my UK Chronicles series on ijmphotography.net. For those of you who are interested, shot with the X100F, edited in Lightroom.

Fields, dry stone walls, and sheep — the Northumbrian countryside with the X100F. Monochrome landscape photography is about simplifying a scene that is already simple: the tonal relationships between sky, stone, and grass are all the picture needs. The X100F’s fixed 23mm lens works well for this kind of expansive framing; you include sky rather than trying to compress the scene. See the full UK Chronicles series on IJM Photography.

Arriving To The Duluth Harbor

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

The Phillip R Clarke makes an early morning appearance to the harbor.

Nikon FM. Kodak Tri-X 400

More of my photography can be found on my Website and Blog.

At The Ready

Black And White Photography, Don, Photography

They are in tall stockpiles in rail yards. And you can see them in small stacks spaced out along railroad mainlines, secondaries, and spurs. They are railroad ties waiting their turn. From a distance they are carefully arranged stacks of lumber. Move in closer and patterns and textures start to become apparent. Look even more closely and those patterns and textures come into sharper focus, and you realize you have a picture.
Railroad ties have a finite life and have to be replaced with some regularity. Hence the stockpiling. These stacks of ties, complete with the baseplates that the rail sits on, were in a small train yard about 40 miles southwest of Houston, Texas.