Comparing color and black and white images

 So this post is about comparing and considering images that were shot digitally in color as black and white images. A look to see how contrast, color and even composition impacts the image and how it engages the viewer. As is always the case these images have had only minimal edits done to them. Nothing more then could have or would have been done in a darkroom using filters or selecting paper or development times. I hope you enjoy. As always, thanks for looking. 

Pink Rose in Black and White

Pink Rose in Color

Birthday Roses Black and White 

Birthday Roses Color 

Pink and Red in Black and White

Pink and Red in Color 

Bridges and Power Station Winter Black and White

Bridges and Power Station Winter Color 

Vault and Lantern Black and White 

Crescent Lake Long Exposure

Evening Calm - Crescent Lake Oregon! 

Some Random Iphonography

When you don't have your "real" camera with you what do you do? Why you resort to using your Iphone of course. 

Still Life 

Pat's Steaks 

The Famous Architect John Berendzen and the Philadelphia City Hall! 

Hanger Deck! 

Road View - IPad image

Quonset on the Prairie 

St. Louis Urban Images in Black and White - And some in color!

I have been out again driving and shooting photos around my fair city of St. Louis for decades. St. Louis has its share of dead and decaying urban buildings. Many impressive buildings left over from a time when St. Louis was a booming metropolis in par with any major city in the nation. Buildings that have lost their luster but still are rich in detail and beauty. In the past few years however I have noticed a depressing trend.  The copper thieves have been decimating buildings that while vacant for many years had weathered their abandonment fairly well. That is until this scourge of copper thievery. The copper thieves will go to great lengths scale walls, climb on roofs and dangle from steeples to rip off gutters, fascia, trims and other details. Building parts that would and did last almost indefinitely when left only to the elements. Once the copper thieves are finished the gaping wounds that are left behind allow the elements to quickly destroy these buildings. For a few dollars gained at the scrap yard beautiful old historic buildings, buildings that have endured long vacancies, are quickly being destroyed. The lengths these people will go for such small amounts in return are amazing. They will risk life and limb. For a hundred bucks in scrap they cause immense damage in the tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. I hope you enjoy these photos. Some of these buildings are going to be gone soon. 

Old Church and Buzzard

Smitten and Afflicted!

Steeple

The Green Green Grass of Home 

Green Green Grass in Black and White 

Corner Detail 

Jackson School 

Closed

Bridge and Big Sky

The Orb

Orange With Vent

Closed Color!

Broadway!

Manifold 

An Afternoon at Augusta Glass

Images From Wyoming

So earlier in the summer I was able to travel to Sheridan Wyoming on business and had the good fortune of having a couple extra days to photograph. It was a great trip with a wide range of subject matter. Everything from the oldest working bar in Wyoming, The Mint, to the airplane graveyard which was once the Powers and Hawkins fire fighting fleet in Graybull Wyoming across the other side of the Big Horn mountains. Here a are just a few of the images I have from that trip.


Torrent




Wyoming!



The Mint and Icon



Let's meet at the bar!



A night at the Mint



Sheridan



The Herd



Of Clouds and Mountains



Ain't what she used to be!



Well Preserved!



High Art Deco!



Heaven is for Real

Ladder to Blue



Of Grass and Ghosts!



Dare me!



Propeller



I can still shine



06



The Big Chair!