This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Hot or Cold Things.
Some recent cold things.
Snow on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline in January 2020.
Snow on conifer branches in December 2019.
Ivy on boulders in the snow in November 2019.
Monochrome Monday is from a recent walk around the neighborhood in the snow.
The shot was almost monochrome before doing the conversion but I added a weak blue tint to give it a cooler tone.
This is my contribution to day 17 of Becky’s October Squares: Lines photo challenge.
These are Birch tree branches being used as a window display on Berford Street in Wiarton on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
You may think that this is a late Monochrome Monday post but it’s actually an almost monochrome Tuesday post.
This isn’t a monochrome conversion, it’s the full colour version taken on a walk last Wednesday afternoon. I was struck by the amount of snow on the thin branches.
Wednesday afternoon of week 48 saw me going for a walk looking for details in the snow.
About halfway along the walk I spotted this leaf clinging on to the snow covered branch. I took a few variations of the leaf and snow covered branches but as is often the case it was the first version I picked.
I did a selective colour treatment of it as there was just enough colour in the background to be distracting.
Monochrome Monday travels back a day to a walk on Sunday morning. With a weekend of thick cloud and poor light I decided to shoot with the intention of converting certain shots to monochrome.
I had a telephoto lens on the camera when I set out. At the turn around point of the walk I swapped the telephoto for my fisheye lens. I kept checking overhead looking for some interesting patterns in the bare branches. I centred myself in this group of trees and because the camera is looking straight up there’s not a lot of fisheye distortion.
