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Black & White Photography

I am neither an Ansel Adams 1 nor a Bob Carlos Clarke 2, if only, but I developed a passion for photography, especially black & white. Over twenty years ago I dumped being a fulltime computer geek (a mistake) and dove into photography, converting a room into a full chemical based dark room.

The magic of not knowing how a picture turned out and then in the gloomy darkness lit only by a dim red light watching it slowly materialise before your eyes seemed and still seems magical to me. Ultimately I followed the herd and switched to digital, for me the switch was because the ever present call of computing still serenaded me & promised a match up of photography and computers. It was another mistake. Photography lost its magic.

But iI still try to take pictures not for others but for me and black & white still holds sway. What follows are some of the images I’m prepared to share I hope you see something nice or appealing to you. Below are a few I’ve picked out and titled ones’s I thought deserved more detail and beneath is the gallery of those I think worth sharing.

the eyes a doorway to the soul

the eyes a doorway to the soul

it’s a big world but the light still shines on me. This is mostly unedited, a shaft of sunlight did genuinely hit the fence i’ve merely enhanced the little one who was voraciously barking at the shaft of sunlight!

it’s a big world but the light still shines on me. This is mostly unedited, a shaft of sunlight did genuinely hit the fence i’ve merely enhanced the little one who was voraciously barking at the shaft of sunlight!

Genuinely un-edited except for some curve tweaks, I took this down the local canal where the cows often enter into the water

Genuinely un-edited except for some curve tweaks, I took this down the local canal where the cows often enter into the water

One of my early self developed images, the dog belongs to the man on the opposite side of the canal, it was a foggy walk up around Cromford mill and I love the grainy atmosphere of the print.

One of my early self developed images, the dog belongs to the man on the opposite side of the canal, it was a foggy walk up around Cromford mill and I love the grainy atmosphere of the print.

  1. Ansel Adams is famous for his photographs of the great american landscape (it was these that made me want to try landscape photography) but he not only photographed landscapes but as with many great photographers was able to capture many subjects including a period in history which some try to destroy evidence of (ref: Manzanar). ↩︎

  2. Bob Carlos Clarke known for erotica but definitely not limited to it (i tried and failed at that particular subject matter) ↩︎