On the beach with my son

Black And White Photography, Ian, Photography
Heading onto the beach in Bamburgh

Heading onto the beach at Bamburgh with the X100F — a photograph of movement and direction rather than a formal portrait. Beach light in Northumberland is wide and even; shooting into the light at this angle silhouettes the figure against the sand and sea, and monochrome holds the tonal range from the bright sky to the foreground shadow without compromise. See the Northumbrian Summer series on IJM Photography.

Still in Hepple

Black And White Photography, Ian, Photography
Sometimes you just have to slow down

Sometimes you just have to slow down — a landscape moment with the X100F in Hepple, Northumberland. Monochrome landscape is as much about what you leave out as what you include: the colour of the heather, the orange of the bracken, stripped away to leave the structure of the land itself. See the UK Chronicles Part VI: Hepple to Otterburn on IJM Photography.

Motel Slots Cafe – In memory of Patricia Fogarty

Black And White Photography, Mobile Photography, Patti, Photography

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Early morning breakfast on US Route 50 in blissful ignorance of its fame as the Loneliest Road in America.

This is the Border Inn, where accommodation is in Utah while the bar and slots are in Nevada!

Astoria-Megler Bridge

Black And White Photography, Laurie, Photography

The Astoria–Megler Bridge is a steel cantilever through truss bridge in the northwest United States that spans the lower Columbia River, between Astoria, Oregon, and Point Ellice near Megler, Washington. Opened 53 years ago in 1966, it is the longest continuous truss bridge in North America

I Swear …

Black And White Photography, Laurie, Photography

… this is not an ad!

I Swear.....

I Swear…..

I’d just returned home from my trip to Kentucky, and had spent the previous 3 hours riding in the rain.  The light, and the shadows, and the raindrops on the windshield, stopped me in my (very wet, dripping )tracks.  My bike was dripping, too,  but it had brought me home safely and that, my friends, is all that really matters.

Come on over to Life on the Bike and Other Fab Things to see more images from my adventures on, and off, the bike.  Please check out the blogs of my fellow contributors to Monochromia, too!