First place black and white favorite choice is a selection of a scene.
Richmond, Indiana.
This photograph contains qualities that are personally important in working with black and white materials.
Successful images are simple in form, subject carefully placed within the frame, exhibit contrast with a range of tones and evoke an emotional response.
My early photography was accomplished using analog materials - film and paper. Begin using digital equipment - cameras, computer and software some twenty years ago.
The equipment was a bit rustic compared to today's standards and for that reason avoided using digital to photograph landscapes. Nature captured on film contained elements that digital couldn't.
Now almost any camera / smartphone is capable of producing very acceptable results. With this in mind, have begun to use digital to photograph natural world.
The first place color choice is a landscape image.
Preble County, Ohio.
This image can be read with a variety of meanings.
Understanding a photograph depends on background knowledge of the maker and the personal experience of the viewer.
For some this is a harvested agricultural field of corn. Which is true and a perfectly valid response as the photographic surface supports that response.
With a bit of knowledge about the maker, others will dig beneath the surface to offer a different reading, uncovering that this is architecture.
For them, not remaining stalks of corn rather decaying urban structures. Not rows but roads.
Photographs that only answer what and where are not enough. They should also seek answers to who and why.
What do you See?
Photographically this has been a good year. Will return in 2018 with a bit of change in mission.
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