Monochrome Monday – David M's photoblog

Monochrome Monday: 15th July 2019

15/07/2019 David MLeave a comment

Monochrome Monday travels back two days to Saturday morning.

I had gone down to the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline for the sunrise. Conditions were looking good when I got up but when I got to the bay I could see a solid bank of cloud over the mouth where the sun would be rising.

There was never much colour in the sky so I was shooting with the idea of doing a monochrome conversion for Monochrome Monday.

Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise with White Cloud Island on the horizon in the mouth of the bay.

Monochrome Monday: 15th July 2019

Variegated leaves in monochrome.

17/06/201930/06/2019 David MLeave a comment

Monochrome Monday travels back a day and another of my rambles trying out the CCTV lens adapted to fit my mirrorless camera.

I photographed these variegated Hosta leaves after some rain. The variegation and the range of greens in the leaves caught my eye. I thought that the range of tones would make an interesting monochrome conversion.

Monochrome conversion of some variegated leaves.

Portrait of a bull Bison.

27/05/2019 David M2 Comments

Monochrome Monday is going back to Saskatchewan, Canada in the late 1990s.

I was friendly with a Bison rancher and could drive out to the herd using the ranch pickup truck as the animals were used to seeing the vehicle. I could set up a tripod in the back of the pickup and photograph the Bison at close range.

Portrait of a bull Bison.

Old Barn in the Mist.

13/05/2019 David M2 Comments

Monochrome Monday is only going back a couple of years.

As the image is almost timeless I decided to make it look like an old film image by adding a film type border and an uneven vignette.

Old Barn at sunrise.

Boulder with lines of Quartz.

06/05/2019 David M7 Comments

Monochrome Monday is going back to last autumn and a visit to the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario.

I was photographing the boulders that surround Dominion Lookout at the bottom of High Street. I isolated this boulder because of the multiple white quartz lines running through it as I thought I would make an interesting monochrome conversion.

Monochrome boulder with lines of quartz.

Monochrome Spring Sunrise.

29/04/201929/04/2019 David M7 Comments

A monochrome conversion of a sunrise from this time last year as I still have a minimum of three weeks left in rehab recovering from the fall I had in March. I’m hoping to be walking and getting out with a camera by the end of May.

Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise, South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.

Colpoy's Bay at sunrise.

Candle flame.

22/04/2019 David MLeave a comment

Monochrome Monday is going back to my days as a photography student in the late 1970s. Originally a simple colour shot, I did a monochrome conversion and some editing in Snapseed before adding a border.

Monochrome candle.