Winter storm Boreas brought the Southwest a nearly unprecedented period of overcast, featuring grey skies, fog, and snow. The feeling and look seemed deeply monochromatic, which of course, is false given the meaning of the word. The Oxford English Dictionary definition is: "containing or using only one colour" or "...light or other radiation of a single wavelength." Monochrome is defined as "reproduction in black and white or in varying tones of only one color" and is closer, but perhaps it is the human brain and eye teaming together to give the landscape uniformity when an overcast sky combines with the snow-covered earth.
I will be out shooting later after the temperature warms above 20 degrees fahrenheit, but for the time being, the photographs here are, in my mind's eye, monochromatic.
No wonder the best-selling "novel" features multiple shades of grey. They are everywhere.
until next Monday,
DB
a passion for the image
I like seeing the color and black and white together. I can ask myself which do I prefer and assess the values of each in depicting the subject. And once again find myself leaning toward the black and white which seems to emphasize the composition.
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