Monochromia

I Can See You

Black And White Photography, Photography
Binocular viewer atop Top of the Rock with Empire State Building in the background.Top of the Rock Observation Deck, 70th Floor, GE Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City

I just don’t tire of images of New York City. For information about this wonderful vantage point and a more panoramic view, see my earlier post, The Big Apple.

For more photos from New York City and beyond, visit VisualVenturing.com.

Blow Your Own Horn

Black And White Photography, Cyndie, Photography

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Time to toot your own horn:

Fog Signal as heard today:

Fog Signal as heard in the 1920’s

Guest Post – Ingrid Dorner

Black And White Photography, Ingrid, Photography

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My name is Ingrid and I was born in Auvergne, France. I have lived in Munich since 2010…A place where I feel happiest with my husband and two girls.

I received my first camera as I was 12 years old …But the real spark was in 2006… when I become a mother. My children gave me a new way to see my life, people and things around me. My gaze was becoming at the same time delicate and strong.

The light and the composition is very more important in my photographs. I try to show some melancholy, like an “happy sadness” in shapes and shadows. In my opinion black and white images are the best way to express those feelings !  A lot of photographers are inspirational to me but Vivian Maier is my reference.

I hope I could share with you some emotions…

I call this pictures “Un matin”

More of my B&W images can be seen at – Here and also Here”

Back To School

Emilio
Fujifilm X-T1 1.420 sec at f/8, ISO 100, 23 mm Yermo CA

Fujifilm X-T1  1/420 sec at f/8,  ISO 100, 23 mm
Yermo CA

I want to get serious for a moment and describe what happened to me over the weekend. We were out taking photos and I found a deserted barn. I went inside and started to set up, checking out angles and lighting and found a spot that was perfect for what I wanted to capture. I brought the camera up to my eye and, at that moment, another photographer entered into my field of vision, started moving objects around to better create his “image”, and completely ignored me. What? Have you no respect for others? Are you so self absorbed that you do not see anybody else? Do you make a habit of walking into someone else’s shot whenever you like? These are rhetorical questions but, people, please be aware of your surroundings. Your photo is no more important than mine and will wait for you. Be respectful of others, be aware of your surroundings. A few weekends ago I was out taking landscape photos and walked towards a deserted house. As I was walking, a car pulled up and I stopped to wait while the woman took a photo with her phone, then waved to me, and backed up her car. I took my few shots from different angles and distances and, when I left, she was down the road a bit waiting for me to finish up. Respect is always reciprocal.

For a color version of the above image to contrast and compare, please visit Photos By Emilio.

What Not To Wear

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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I have returned for my holidays which were spent in the UK. This was on of the first shots out of my camera taken in Winchester high street. I was so attracted to the two mannequins in the shop window. The way they seem to be pompously judging the shopper taking a rest on the bench outside that this shot leaped out at me.

Leica M9P

Summilux 34mm f1.4 ASPH

Atop the Empire State Building

Black And White Photography, Photography

Lower Manhattan viewed from top of the Empire State BuildingLooking south to Lower Manhattan

(Scheduled post) My last aerial view of lower Manhattan was from the Top of the Rock Observation Deck on the 70th floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center. This view is from the 86th Floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building. In the distance is One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower); at 6:00 is the triangular Flatiron Building, bordered by Broadway on the left and 5th Avenue on the right, with Madison Square Park (at the bottom of the frame) just a block away.

Interested in some night shots from the ESB?
Visit today’s Visual Venturing post!