Another photo from my 2012 archives gets the black and white treatment this week, this one's of my Dad with a Pringle beak, like you do...
It's a favourite photo of Dad and I'm posting it this week as we celebrate his "Garnet" birthday - happy 80th birthday Dad!
It's week 2 of Charly from PODCast's new black and white photography project - see her Week 2 London Eye photo and post on Inspirational Photographer Ansel Adams, a favourite of mine since we saw some of his work when we visited Yosemite National Park back in 2000.
This week I've chosen a photo of Holkham Beach in Norfolk taken in May 2012. Holkham is a great beach and like many of Norfolk's beaches has vast stretches of unspoilt sand, and walking on untrodden sand is a bit like walking on freshly fallen snow - you want to put your footprints everywhere... Or I do anyway!
It's the footprints I like in this photo, the criss-cross and mish-mash of textures that immediately transport me back there climbing up the dune so I can see the sea!
And btw, these aren't all my footprints!
Charly over at PODCast has started a new Linky for Black and White photographs - see Black and White Photography Project Week 1 - if you like black and white photography why don't you link up too? There's also tips on how to improve your black and white photographs...
The one that resonated for me was to see the world in shades of grey when composing a shot. In preparation for this #bwphotoproject I scanned my digital photo archives and found a few that I'll use over the next few weeks. Hopefully I'll supplement these with some newer shots where I've planned a black and white outcome.
This week I've chosen a lifeboat from the Cutty Sark, here in Greenwich:
Somehow in black and white there's a clarity that's not there in colour, if you know what I mean?
