There are numerous old-style street lamps in the historic center of Mexico City. Here is an image of one in black and white.
Street Lamp in Black and White
Street Lamp in Black and White
Category Archives: Black & White Images
Hanging Wheel in Monochrome
A wagon wheel on a hanging chain at Hart Square makes a striking image in monochrome.
Hanging Wheel
Wheels in Monochrome
A Dock in the Fog
A monochrome version of a dock jutting out in Lake Hickory, North Carolina creates a surreal image with reflections on water.
A Fishing Dock in the Fog
Jutting into the Fog
A Shining Light
A sunburst through the slats in a building is strikingly highlighted in the monochrome version. An optical phenomenon called diffraction causes the starburst effect; as light passes through a small aperture, it is diffracted (or spread out) across the lens’ aperture blades.
A Shining Light
Lamps and Shadows
White lamps and their symmetrical black shadows on a walkway at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina in their monochrome version accentuate their contrasts
Lamps and Shadows
Not the Way Down
Although it seems like the stairs go down while looking at the shadows of the wooden walkway on the bricked wall, this monochrome version was captured in Savannah, Georgia
Not the Way Down
Sunburst in Monochrome
A “Starburst” of “Sunburst” in photography refers to capturing the sun in your photo where you can actually see the sun’s rays in a star like shape. The sunburst effect is created from pointing your lens at a bright source of light such as the sun. As the light passes through the aperture blades of a lens, it renders the sun’s rays in a star like shape with points of light radiating out from the center.
Here is a monochrome version of a sunburst captured at around sunset on the river front in Washington, North Carolina
Shooting Against the Sun
Trees in the Fog
These images of trees in the fog in North Carolina are accentuated in their monochrome version
Leafless Beauty
Trees in the Fog
Light and Shadows in the Workshop
In this monochrome image light from old windows cast designs on the floor and sills and accentuate bricked walls in a workshop
Light and Shadows in the Workshop
Park Your Bike and Pull Up a Chair
A small town spirit in England is captured in this monochrome image with a table and two chairs for patrons coming on a bicycle to a quaint tea shop
Park Your Bike and Pull Up a Chair
Light and Shadow Designs
This image in monochrome captures the lighting, shadows and architectural designs in the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin.
Light and Shadow Designs
Lighting a Lamp
Is the lamp lit by electricity? No, it is the sun behind it that captures light in the lamp in this monochrome image from Washington, North Carolina.
Lighting a Lamp
Shadows on the Walkway
Shadows of the railings on the walkway along the river in Washington, North Carolina make the monochrome image interesting.
Shadows on the Walkway
Patterns and Shadows
Patterns and shadows are visually appealing in monochrome. This image of a ladder, its shadows and wall designs is from a residential fair in Gujarat, India.
Patterns and Shadows
Monochrome Images
Switching our posts for the next two weeks from color to monochrome.
Monochrome photography is an artistic type of photography that uses tones of a single color to colorize a photograph. Instead of having colors from all over the spectrum, a monochrome photo has just one color scale. All black and white images are monochrome images, but not all monochrome images are black and white.
Here is an image captured from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park in California, that is converted from color to monochrome making it balanced and visually appealing.
Cloud Formations over Yosemite in Monochrome
Cloud Formations from Glacier Point Yosemite
Houston Water Wall in Monochrome
Houston Water Wall shot in monochrome adds mystic quality to the image
Houston Water Wall in Monochrome
Stairs of a Lighthouse in Monochrome
Another photo of a lighthouse stairs in a black and white image, taken for top looking down.
Water Fountain Silhouettes
This image creates, while shooting against the sun of a water fountain, silhouette of the building but highlighting the spurting water and reflections
Tree Silhouettes
Shooting in winter against a sun creates tree silhouettes in this image
Under the Bridge
A different monochrome perspective from being under the Mannon C. Gore Bridge, Sunset Beach, North Carolina
