I am still in my black and white period. Though I do feel a brightening.
I think subject matter has a lot to do with the success of monochrome images. With colour it is a much simpler equation. With black and white it is all about form and structure and light.
Though I still remember when we only had black and white film as an option.
It is cold. Almost all colour has leeched from the landscape. The fields are in sepia now. We have a lot of wind out here on the prairies lately. After a summer with less wind than usual. It is the epitome of lonely: this howling cold wind.
I got really dark there for a bit.
Now I feel a little colour creeping in.
( I have been working on bread and pasta to create images for the marketing team at work) so here is one of those. Though I am not ready to leave the extreme discipline of monochrome yet.
I need to stay very disciplined to see my plan through. This omicron is everywhere down here. I think it is just a matter of putting on our life jackets and riding it out. These surges are going to keep returning – we need to adapt as best we can. If ever there was a case for building a network of support this would be it. Being a working single parent with school age kids must be so hard, with so much illness wreaking havoc. We need to gather around our little families and BE the village. And so I will.
And a moment of full barn colour before I dip back down again.
I hope you are well. ( such a loaded statement these days!).
Cecilia
The Kitchen's Garden 
60 responses to “Black and White”
Excellent photo story succession from b&w to colour… I feel it. Right now I really have the urge to go make ravioli even though I’ve never done it before!
Lovely images, especially the crystal on branches. My husband loves the old “film noir” for their images, shadows and angles. Nothing quite like them. He used to have a dark room here in the house. He was a part-time wedding photographer who took 15 rolls of film of 36. We’d spend days putting the negatives in sleeves. All that is changed. Just as someone above said, no more labs! Everything’s digital.
Indeed it is and didital is weirdly disposable. Having a good print is still important I think.
Being in your black and white period is far better than having the blues. I suffer from this occasionally. As a part-time author, I feel blue looking at Nikki The Greek, Leaving Ikaria peering at me from my PC screen. There are 60,000 words so far and plenty more to finish the story of the Greek man who robbed all of his partners
Well, we don’t want the Blues then / though Picassos Blue Period was startling.
Have a;ways loved the black-and-white. It points to the story behind the photo . . . colour just draws attention to itself . . . Yours truly bring ‘what is’ to us . . .
Yes! Beautifully said Eha
These are stunning. And the way you arranged them, the black and white slowing morphing into (some) color is amazing. And I remember when developing color photos was exorbitantly expensive. Sending love as your world brightens.
Beautiful! I am a huge fan of monochrome/b&w pics! 😍
And those delectable little parcels are gorgeous, very inviting! I now have a hankering for ravioli!
Stay well, Celi and co
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I love black & white. There is something so honest about it. But the chickens and Mr Flowers needed to be in color. They make me smile. And by gosh, there is not a whole lot of smiles to be had here either. Everyone is in the process of some kind of sick – getting, being, recovering down here in Texas. But the books must go on….
Interesting that creating with flour is bringing the colour back into your life (it being ‘the staff of life’ and all…)
But your rolling pin is fairly bursting with life and love – exuding a life of experience, a life filled with love, in all of its glorious hues and texture. SO BEAUTIFUL, so hopeful. Life WILL carry on, dear C❤️
Yes it will!