Monochromia

Selfies Again !

Black And White Photography, Ian, Photography

They’re all at it!! Window on the World, aka Selfie Heaven, Shenzhen, China, X100F

They’re all at it — a collective ritual at Window on the World, Shenzhen, X100F. The repeating gesture — phone raised, screen glowing — turns into a pattern rather than individual portraits. The X100F is unobtrusive in these situations: small, unassuming, easily mistaken for a tourist compact. Monochrome turns the colourful crowd into a graphic study in repeated behaviour. See the full article: China — Shenzhen Day 3 on IJM Photography.

Chicago – In remembrance of Don Simmons

Black And White Photography, Don, Photography

“My kind of town, Chicago is…
The Wrigley Building, Chicago Is…”
— Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn

There are iconic buildings throughout the world that immediately identify a place — Sydney Opera House in Australia, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Taj Mahal in India — and in Chicago it is the Wrigley Building.

With all the skyscrapers and sleek buildings that have popped up in Chicago and other cities over the past forty years or so, the Wrigley Building remains an icon. How iconic? Well, when Lego Architecture did a skyline of Chicago, the 100 year-old Wrigley Building was one of buildings featured. Can you get a stronger imprimatur than Lego? ‘Nuff said.