Robyn

The Best Of Monochromia – Robyn Graham – Sunset Silhouette

Black And White Photography, Photography

I had been following Robyn’s blog for a while before I asked her to join us here at Monochromia and I was thrilled when she accepted. She is a very talented photographer from Bucks County Pennsylvania and also one of the friends/contributors that I have had to pleasure to meet in person. She is every bit as sweet and friendly as her profile image suggests – Joe

Sunset Silhouette

Sunset Silhouette

Wander

Black And White Photography

Wander

ss 0.8 f 22 ISO 160 – long exposure to capture motion

To see this image in color and to read more about it, please visit my personal blog at: Robyn Graham Photography. I’d love to hear your thoughts on which you like better – color or black and white, and do you Wander?

Moments Enough

Black And White Photography, Photography

Enough

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

To see more of my personal work in both color and black and white please visit my blog at: Robyn Graham Photography.  Be sure not to miss the gorgeous sunflower I posted earlier in the week!  😉

 

Wonder of Light

Black And White Photography, Photography

“Wonder of Light”

"Wonder of Light"

“Wonder of Light”

This image was taken in Northern Idaho in August.

SS 1/60  f 5.0  ISO 400

To read the poem I wrote to accompany this image please visit my personal blog: Robyn Graham Photography.

Where Shall I Grow

Black And White Photography, Photography
Where Shall I grow

Where Shall I grow

What Shall I Become

What Shall I Become

I begin as one with many,

But the breeze carries me away.

I drift along with the wind,

It carries me East, then West,

Maybe North and South too.

I land,

I am now alone.

Where shall I grow?

What shall I become?

copyright Robyn Graham of Robyn Graham Photography

I know, I know, this is a photography blog, but I was inspired to write today and thus, the poem above.  I hope you enjoy both, the images and the poem.

A Rest Under the Trees

Black And White Photography, Photography
A Rest Under the Trees - with a Sunburst to Please

A Rest Under the Trees – with a Sunburst to Please

ss 1/100   f 5.6    ISO 400    24-70 mm f2.8 at 66mm

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”  – John Lubbock

Serpent Star Fish

Black And White Photography

Serpent Star Fish

 

Well, it’s one of those weeks when mistakes have been made…that’s allowed, right?  I took my computer in to have additional memory installed because all of my raw files are taking up so much space.  I was so focused on getting “work” done before being without it, that I completely forgot to write my post for this week for Monochromia.  So, desperately not wanting to disappoint, I searched my iPhone photograph library.  Thankfully I had a few images from our trip to Grand Cayman that I had converted to black and white using the photo app.   I selected one and emailed the image above of a Serpent Star Fish to our family laptop and voila, I have a post.

The picture isn’t the greatest quality as it was taken with my phone, but I found this creature to be quite intriguing and the composition was satisfactory.  The Star Fish crawled out of a large Conch shell and drew quite a crowd on the beach. Kids stopped in their tracks, stopped playing catch, and ran to see what we’d found.

I had never seen a Star Fish like it before, but when we flipped it over to examine it, it had little tentacles and looked just like a Star Fish on the bottom.  Upon doing an on-line search, we discovered that it was indeed a Star Fish – a Serpent Star Fish.  Have you ever seen one?  The center was black as coal.

Have a great weekend!