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| Grande Dames de Val Vidal |
Black and white is a time worn photographic tradition. Regardless of how great color has become especially in this digital age and how we can play with it until it becomes more like a painting than a photograph photographers are continually drawn back to the elemental nature of black and white.
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Noisy Sky
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Some subjects like the two photographs above do not have a wealth of rich color to begin with so taking the little color there is out of the image makes for a stronger composition. With the spider web below the green background had been a distraction so making it black and white made the delicate dew jeweled web more evident in the picture.
September Spider Web by J. Binford-Bell
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| Shy Bells by J. Binford-Bell |
But flowers seem to require color, so taking out the color seems at first a betrayal until the structure of the flower begins to seduce the viewer. Aspens, however, especially in the winter come to life in Black and White.
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| Snowy Woods |
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| Reflections in Black and White |
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| Solitude |
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| Dark Woods |
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| Memory of Trees 4 |
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| Memory of Trees 3 |
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| Memory of Trees 2 |
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Memory of Trees 1
Winner of 2nd Prize at Ralph Solano 2017 |
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