Scenes without color: LAPC

Scenes without color highlight

design elements of feathered finery

headdresses

Artistic arrangements of snacks

appetizers at McMenamins

and fantastical architectural forms

Lan Su Chinese Garden

Scenes without color highlight

perfection in imperfect patterns

scenes without color

bold and buoyant formations

scenes without color

and the delicacy of floral details

orchids

To see these same images in color see my Color in photos post.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Color in Black and White

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A ghostly cottonwood: Monochrome Monday

a ghostly cottonwood

A ghostly cottonwood at Summer Lake, Oregon

Monochrome Monday

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A bright future: MM & JMW

This photo, taken in downtown Bend, Oregon, shows a bright future. I used infrared processing to show the light not always visible to the naked eye.

a bright future

A sign on a lamppost reads, “Shelter, Help, Hope.” It’s from one of the homeless shelters here in town. Sometimes, if people in difficult situations can focus on the light ahead, they can find their way out of the darkness.

Monochrome Madness (MM)

Jo’s Monday Walk (JMW)

Seeing the softness of nature: LAPC & WPWC

Seeing the softness of nature

Walking behind a wall of water of a woodland waterfall

Seeing the softness of nature

Regarding a heron ruminating over rippling reflections

great blue heron

Spotting the strength of steel softened by a spring snow

snowy fence

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Juniper caught misty moon poem: Monochrome Monday

Juniper caught misty moon on a chill winter night
Struggling to escape, moon gave up on the fight

Juniper caught the misty moon

Scrub jays gathered atop the great tree
Pecking and prodding until moon was set free

scrub jays infrared

Monochrome Monday in infrared

Covered in coldness poem: LAPC

Covered in coldness
Obscured from view
Layered in lightness
Dazzling and new

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge (LAPC) – Cold

Ancient Words: Monochrome Monday

Ancient-Words at Newspaper Rock, Utah -4May2017
Ancient-Words at Newspaper Rock, Utah -4May2017

These petroglyphs at Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument near Monticello, Utah look otherworldly in infrared. To see the whole amazing rock in color, see Newspaper Rock – Ancient Messages in Stone.