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Tag Archives: Black and white Photography

Celebrating the sunflower season

This year I decided to celebrate the sunflower season with a digital art portraying the sequencial wilting of a sunflower. I combined several pictures into one using photoshop layers then I added a stone texture.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesJuly 14, 2021November 26, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Botanicals, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Botanical Photography, wall art, wilting sunflower19 Comments on Celebrating the sunflower season

Monochrome abstractions in Point Reyes

In this post I show a few examples of abstractions in monochrome, following up with the previous one, which was about abstractions in color.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesJuly 7, 2021May 15, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Land and dreamscapes, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Elephant Seal, High key photography, Point Reyes National Seashore, Wildlife photography20 Comments on Monochrome abstractions in Point Reyes

Lotus photography, William Land Park

A found Lotus leaves dancing in the wind at the William Land Park in Sacramento, and that was more fun than photographing the flowers in bloom.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesJune 25, 2021November 26, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Botanicals, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Botanical Photography, lotus photography, wall art, William Land Park7 Comments on Lotus photography, William Land Park

Wild Horse Photography in Public Lands

In this post I talk about a trip I did to photograph wild horses in Mono Lake, California, in the beginning of June, 2021.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesJune 14, 2021November 26, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Land and dreamscapes, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Mono Lake wild horses, mustang photography, wall art, wildhorse photography21 Comments on Wild Horse Photography in Public Lands

Ocean Waves at Point Reyes

I was proud that I was able to have a good time and photograph at Point Reyes despite a missing item for long exposure. Not so proud to find out, when I got home, that the item had been inside my backpack all along

Posted byAlessandra ChavesJune 2, 2021May 15, 2022Posted inBlack and white PhotographyTags:always have a plan B, Black and white Photography, Ocean photography, photographer with ADHD17 Comments on Ocean Waves at Point Reyes

Tufted Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa) in black and white

The California poppy is the official state flower and is flowering now in the Central Valley.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesApril 14, 2021November 26, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Botanicals, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Eschscholzia caespitosa, Tufted poppy19 Comments on Tufted Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa) in black and white

Light and Shadow

Architectural photographs highlighting the interplay of light and shadow

Posted byAlessandra ChavesMarch 25, 2021November 26, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, PhotographyTags:Architectural Photography, Black and white Photography, Sacramento architecture13 Comments on Light and Shadow

Spring Musings in black and white

You can use color filters to obtain the black and white image you want straight out of camera. A filter will lighten the color that is the same of its own color.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesFebruary 28, 2021November 26, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Botanicals, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Botanical Photography, high contrast black and white, tulip flower photography, wall art5 Comments on Spring Musings in black and white

Cloudy ocean

Sometimes a photograph becomes so abstract that it is no longer a representation of reality.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesFebruary 24, 2021May 15, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, long exposure photography, Ocean photography, Patrick's Point State Park4 Comments on Cloudy ocean

Anatomy of a monocot leaf

The leaf of a monocot plant is characterized by major leaf veins running parallel.

Posted byAlessandra ChavesFebruary 19, 2021May 15, 2022Posted inBlack and white Photography, Botanicals, PhotographyTags:Black and white Photography, Botanical Photography, leaf photography7 Comments on Anatomy of a monocot leaf

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