A Conversation for bobstafford's Black-and-White Challenge (II)

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Post 1

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Do you know what I like best about this photo? The black-and-white makes it seem more numinous, somehow: as if it were inviting me to decipher its hidden meaning.

The lack of colour distraction also permits us to notice more about the pattern the tree makes. You could get lost in there.

I like black-and-white: it changes the way you see things. smiley - smiley


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Post 2

bobstafford

Agreed a good black and white is hard to better


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Post 3

Caiman raptor elk - Inside big box, thinking.

I'm intrigued by the small cloud just to the right of the tower. Not sure why. If I know I'll tell you.


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Post 4

minorvogonpoet

To me, it looks like a picture crying out for a ghost story.smiley - ghost


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Post 5

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

Good. smiley - laugh


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Post 6

FWR

Obviously with a happy ending?smiley - run


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Post 7

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - rolleyes I can see there needs to be a 'Writing Right' about that. smiley - groan


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Post 8

FWR

Genius boss!


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Post 9

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

The glow in the sky seems a combination of yellow, amber, and sepia.


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Post 10

bobstafford

Thank you for your comment.

There is an apparent hint of colour, why I am not sure


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Post 11

SashaQ - happysad

Yes - I see a sepia tone!

It is a very atmospheric photo indeed - I remember seeing it in h2g2 before, but I can't remember where. I remember it being coloured then, like a sunset, but I may just be recalling the sepia tone...


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Post 12

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I think that the sepia is appropriate to the time and place. Very early dawn has a lot of gray in it. smiley - smiley


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Post 13

cactuscafe

So atmospheric, reminds me of the Glastonbury Tor pic of yours that is still in my wallet.

Is it the Tor?

Anyway, amazing pic, Bob, I can hear the music of it, there are violins.

Hah! Yes!

Black and white is amazing isn't it, it has a beguiling poetry that takes me to places I can't find the poetry for. smiley - rofl.


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Post 14

bobstafford

Glastonbury well spotted DG pulled it out of the files, pleased you still like it. smiley - smiley


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Post 15

SashaQ - happysad

Aha! Thank you cactuscafe - I found where I had seen a similar image before A87896876

Poetry without words indeed!


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Post 16

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

When I was growing up, I was sometimes cajoled into joining the other church members for a sunrise service on Easter morning.

Now, I'd like to explain some basic facts about myself. I'm an Irving Berlin, I-hate-to-get-up-in-the-morning kind of guy. The world is supposed to seem very special at dawn, especially on Easter. Fine. let others go to their sunrise service and shoot a video, and I will gladly watch the video later, after I've slept until a proper time. smiley - tongueout

The sun will come up in the morning. I don't have to be there watching when it does that. I trust the Sun implicitly and explicity, and every other kind of icitly. This makes me think about Eliza Doolittle's song about Professor Higgins, "Without you."

"Without your twirling it, the earth can spin.
Without your pulling them, the clouds roll in."

etc.

So, keep the photos coming. Black and white, color, whatever floats anybody's boat. I will smiley - applause.

But I'm not getting up any earlier than I have to! smiley - tongueout


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Post 17

FWR

Oh Paul, you're missing out big time, dawn is a wonderful spectacle.smiley - magic


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Post 18

bobstafford

Hi FWR careful he will want her address
smiley - winkeye


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Post 19

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

"you're missing out big time, dawn is a wonderful spectacle" [FWR]

I make up for it when I'm admiring a beautiful sunset. In fact, the evening sunlight makes my back and side yards look glorious. I have lots of sun-loving plants, and I'm a little anxious that they won't get enough of it. There are a couple of light corridors where the morning and evening sun streams. It's mid-afternoon that get's shady...


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