I’m craving color in these days of black and white beauty, so here’s my entry for this week’s nature theme at Sally’s D’s Mobile Photography Challenge. Ahhh, I do love my iPhone 5s, not only for ease of carry, but for the excellence of its camera! Now I’m never without a camera.
This is also my mom’s birthday as well as Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S. My mom lived in California, so I know that wasn’t her best birthday ever. But I hope this one is.
Usually on Monday I participate in Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge. But Sally will be not only cyber-free but visiting relatives this week, so there’s no challenge. Instead, I thought I’d share a photo I took earlier this year along Naperville’s Riverwalk, a lovely length of pavement that winds through the downtown. I took my camera and sat on a bench, waiting to see who or what came by. This meeting brought a smile to my face. The little boy wanted to pet the dog but as you can see, he was a bit cautious.
Do you prefer color or black and white?
Many of you know that I love to take photos of raindrops and dewdrops. These are two of my favorite “drop shots.” The second week of Sally’s D’s Mobile Photography Challenge features macro photography. Feel free to join in if you take photos with a “non-camera” camera.
And the Weekly Photo Challenge theme for the first week in November is…
(drum roll, please)…
“Ornate.”
An outdoor faucet…
A village water source…
An everyday home in French wine country with everyday Burgundian roof tiles. Hey, it’s someone’s everyday home…
Sometimes less is more, as Cee demonstrates this week in her “Compose Yourself Photo Challenge”, “Simplicity” edition. The “simplicity” challenge: Show us 4 to 6 photos that you have taken that are extremely simple. Show us your uncropped and unedited versions. Sharpening and saturation is allowed.
Here are my four simple originals:
For some additional fun: Cropping: show us one before and after cropped simplicity photo. Color vs. B&W: show us the same photo one color and one black and white photo.
Here’s my cropped photo. ( Click on any photo to see it larger.)
Here are the color and black-and-white versions.
Today’s the day when we can say, at least on Sally’s blog and those of the participants, that everything really is black and white. In their last days, these natural beauties translate seamlessly into that medium. Like a person who ages well, age isn’t what you notice first, but the character and beauty of the details. As Rod Stewart once put it, “You wear it well.”
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