Photo's and Art project a cohesive message by using monochrome colors →
Monochrome art and photography enable visual cohesion to support the communication objective. (Black and White can be Cool)
The lone black tree on the gray road and black shrubbery communicate bleak darkness, and the power poles in the distance tell us life still exists, perhaps, in this dark world.
The near-white sky could pass as white, but white or gray still are acceptable in all monochromatic schemes since it is essentially the lightest version of any color.
This photo presents questions. Why is the tree alone since it must have grown much longer than the surrounding growth? What terrible thing happened in this place?
About Black and White Art and how it changes our focus →
Paintings and photos in black and white make you concentrate on elements such as composition, value, lighting, and form. This approach results in your focus being on the image as a whole.
Monochrome is the term used for painting in black and white.
White is pure light, and black is the absence of light. These two non-colors are associated with life and death rituals in many cultures.
A Photo a Day is a Photo Essay →
The words “Photo Essay” suggest a group of photographs that might be used in a book or magazine and arranged to explore a theme or tell a story.
Unlike a written essay, this approach focuses on pictures instead of words, and because pictures tell a complete story, some may feel the photo essay is more complete.
Of course, the creative opportunity for the essayist is expanded with photos, and chances are gained to find new ideas for the essay each time it is viewed. The problem with this is that the viewer may not see the message intended as clearly as with a written report, which excludes what the author is not interested in.
Many people take a photo daily without even considering that they are making a photo essay of their own life or those around them.
Black and White photos convey their message and can imply news, bleakness, and matter-of-fact messages compared to color, adding life. Living at a time when almost everyone is carrying a phone with a great camera, the whole idea of a “Photo of the Day” is a trending idea.
The photos are the characters in the plot and without words they tell you a story. →
A photo essay is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A great photo essay can be powerful because it evokes emotion and understanding without using words. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along the intended narrative journey.
This story begins once upon a time on November 24th. “Two geese walk down a path. The first one says to the other: “Hey Buddy, tomorrow is Turkey Day. Bet you glad you’re not a turkey”, The second one says nothing but thinks to herself: “you are a turkey.”
This post tells us that Geese talk about this photo essay. It also is self-evident that they are both glad they aren’t turkeys. The evidence is right here in this photo essay; just listen. Solid proof.
That being said, consider this a tip-off to what might be for New Year’s Day dinner.
The World Looks Different in Black and White →
Photography of the world in monochrome makes us pause and look more closely. Removing color from a picture helps the viewer focus on a subject's emotional state. Black and white images let the audience see the subject's face and read their eyes without distraction. What we see and feel in black and white comes from within.
Black and white can be used to change how we look at and capture the world. It can tap into creativity by forcing us, as photographers, to see a scene differently.
see post: Black and White Winter Art tells Unique Story
The lack of color in this picture leaves Ali clearly the focus point and all the light is in the ring…………………
Photo Essay: Desert, Sun, Life and Maybe Rain →
The central image and light of the sun in this image evoke symmetry and centrality and serve to embrace the beauty of the desert cacti in bloom and bring life to what may be expected to be lifeless brown earth. The green of the trees and the grass seems more accurate because of both the flowering cacti and the sun.
The beauty of the flowers is guarded and protected by the thorns surrounding them. Even the clouds have placed themselves in this photo to bring more focus to the light through the trees and become central to the essay.
Long roads with mountains in the distance. Darkness coming bringing rain. Is the desert always the same?
The land changes from green to brown but is it ever really the same?
Photo Essay or Telescope or Both and Why? →
A camera setting on a stand with a high-power lens is often just a fancy telescope, but that can be a convenient first step in gathering information about events that become photo essays. The scope can spot events, but when the picture is taken, it chooses the one image that is perhaps the best, then it may pick one that still captures the others.
Do pictures represent one event? How would that be possible since there was a before and an after and things that happened simultaneously but were missed?
Sociality in Nature Reveals Individuality →
Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures.
Photo essays find you rather than you finding them.
Read moreYou only photograph the effect of the wind: it is felt not seen →
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Winds come, some as powerful as that of a typhoon or hurricane, and then eventually, winds go. Even scripture will try to explain a storm.
“And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice" (1 Kings 19: 11–12)
Sometimes a photograph is like scripture, a scared record, or an essay telling the story. The wind is the horizontal motion of air caused by the pressure difference between two places. Even so, you only see current results rather than the wind itself.
“Gandhi And The Spinning Wheel”: The picture was a photo essay of his life →
Gandhi And The Spinning Wheel, Margaret Bourke-White, 1946
The photo is the essay because it conveys the spirit of peace and resistance better than words.
Gandhi said, "The spinning wheel represents to me the hope of the masses. The masses lost their freedom, such as it was with the loss of the charkha”. He was convinced that the revival of hand-spinning and hand-weaving would make the most significant contribution to the economic and moral regeneration of India
Gandhi was a prisoner at Yeravda prison in Pune, India, from 1932 to 1933. The nationalist leader made his thread with a charkha, a portable spinning wheel. The practice evolved from a source of personal comfort during captivity into a touchstone of the campaign for independence, with Gandhi encouraging his fellow citizens to make their homespun cloth instead of buying British goods.
The Photo is the Essay and shows that the power of a photo is timeless! →
On the morning of June 5, 1989, photographer Jeff Widener was perched on a sixth-floor balcony of the Beijing Hotel. The day after the Tiananmen Square massacre, Chinese troops attacked pro-democracy demonstrators camped on the plaza, and the Associated Press sent Widener to document the aftermath.
Widener assumed the man would be killed, but the tanks held their fire. Eventually, the man has whisked away, but not before Widener immortalized his singular act of resistance. Others also captured the scene, but Widener’s image was transmitted over the AP wire and appeared on front pages worldwide. Decades after Tank Man became a global hero; he remains unidentified. The anonymity makes the photograph all the more universal, symbolizing resistance to unjust regimes everywhere.
A photo essay in the moment brings the past into the present →
A camera is a time machine. It brings the past into the present and captures a moment at a time, special events, lives, and history preserving essential memories in our lives.
History and even our lives are better understood by photographs of notable moments.
Camera Quotes
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
“Essentially, what photography is is life lit up.”
“I don't trust words.
“I believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”
“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
Provo Canyon's Bridal Veil Falls in Utah is Breathtakingly Amazing →
This picture was taken with a Phone out of a car window moving along at 60 miles per hour. Bridal Veil Falls is in Provo Canyon in Utah. The falls are frozen this time of year.
Stopping by the forest in a stormy night
Forests are magical; they make us think of fairy tales and stories. They can be a place of threatening danger, refuge, or adventure. In folklore and fantasy, the plot and the characters make the forest enchanted. Forests indeed are a breath of fresh air, both literally and mentally.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are, I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Ducks, Geese, Coots and Seagulls, all Amazing, come to Oquirrh Lake near Daybreak Utah. →
On Oquirrh Lake, in the Southwest corner of the Salt Lake City Valley, sometimes the ice in the winter is just below the water, but along the edge, it is above the water. Some of the ducks sit on the water in large groups. Some go to the edges and seem to be walking on water as they get close but then walk on the ice.
The Geese don’t come at the same time as the Ducks, so it is just the Ducks. The Coots seem to be always here.
Ducks' feet aren't equipped with insulating layers of fat; they have to be able to minimize how much heat they lose through their feet through blood circulation. When blood reaches the duck’s foot, it is very cool, so it does not lose too much heat in transfer with cold water. Ducks don’t mind the cold on their feet.
Breathe in the Amazing and live life. →
Life is Amazing. Of course, it is, but it is also astonishing, astounding, fabulous, fantastic, unbelievable, marvelous, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious, stupendous, impossible, incredible, and wondrous.
Breathe in the Amazing and live life.
A River Ran Through It - An Amazing Memory
Photo by Stefano Carini