Category: Black and white Photography
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Tufted Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa) in black and white
The California poppy is the official state flower and is flowering now in the Central Valley.
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Light and Shadow
Architectural photographs highlighting the interplay of light and shadow
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Splash
I don’t know if wave splashes in long exposure have any artistic value, but they are sure fun to obtain. They are also impossible to replicate. Taking a long exposure photograph is looking at the scene in whole different away. It is magical, it slows up the time for your…
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Cloudy ocean
Sometimes a photograph becomes so abstract that it is no longer a representation of reality.
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Anatomy of a monocot leaf
The leaf of a monocot plant is characterized by major leaf veins running parallel.
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Ocean view
Many contemporary landscape photographers try to balance the natural beauty of the land with the imprint of humans in a movement loosely known as “contemporary landscape”.
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The Mermaid’s face
I have been to the Marin Headlands a number of times, but last Saturday was the first time I saw the face of the Mermaid.
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The face of the ocean
Developing my photographs in black and white helps to free my mind, and the viewers’, from the original scene, or from what an equivalent scene is supposed to look like
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My mood of the ocean
I like the freedom from reality that black and white gives me. In color, there is often the expectation that a scene has some resemblance with reality, and when it does not, it looks strange. In black and white, by contrast, there is no such expectation because there is no…
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Branching patterns
Our circulatory system, our lungs, the tops and roots of trees, the rivers flowing to the ocean, and the evolution of life itself can be recovered as a branching pattern.
It is all about the light 