Tag: monochrome

Stylised Still Life Collage

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The other day I posted about trying out some mono-printing on a gel plate, and was asked how I might use the collage papers I made?

This morning I was playing about with how the tissue paper botanical leaf prints would look as part of a collage piece, and realised I could also re-purpose the standard copier paper I’d re-used several times (while pressing the leaves down on to the gel plate to make an impression in the paint surface) – I cut it up to make both the vase holding the ‘flowers’ and the plant pot holding the ferns.

It’s quite a simple collage using only blue and white, but I enjoyed making it, and added the hearts at the last minute just for fun 🙂

M is for Monochrome

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My first forays into photography in the 1970s (with my very own Kodak Instamatic 33) were in monochrome, basically because black and white film was cheaper to process, and I loved my greyscale images because they were my own. Then once I started using colour film, I lost my taste for boring old black and white photographs.

But when I started blogging and began taking part in Cee’s Black and White Challenge, I found a new love of monochrome images borne of choice rather than necessity. I learned that black and white is often the most dramatic way to view value contrast – the blackest black shadows and the whitest white highlights can really pack a punch.

So here’s a recent black and white image of dappled light falling through trees and on to a track for today’s A-Z post, where M is for monochrome 🙂

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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Time flies when you’re having fun, and it hardly seems possible that we’ve already come to the end of Geometric January, so I’m going out in style with a few squared monochrome images from our last trip to Louisiana in October 2022.

The first two are of the spectacular roof of Kings Cross station in London, the second two are taken in Heathrow Airport, and the last two shots are from New Orleans. All show metal-framed structures relating to transport – so we really do have planes, trains and automobiles! 🙂

Overkill

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For a while it seemed that every time I passed through this old gate on my walk along the canal, another new hex fixing was added to help support the ever-faithful solid latch. But recently I’ve noticed the entire structure has been changed from the original wooden gate to a more modern metal variety.

And the new latch on the new gate? Already broken and missing… I guess they just don’t make them like they used to! 🙂

Geometric January