Tag: old

Classic?

I don’t know what a half drunk case of Classic Coke has to do with antiques, but there it was!

Lay dying

A few of the old broken tombstones at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral located in downtown Pittsburgh. I decided to keep them simple with a straightforward black and white conversion. Nothing fancy today.

Hello my ragtime gal

I was in Wheeling the other evening and was heading out of town as night fell. The colorful neon lights of the Victoria, enhanced by the snowfall, caught my eye and I thought I would grab a quick pic. Fortunately there weren’t any vehicles parked in front of the theater, as there normally is, and I had a clear shot.…

Just a thing

I see lots of things when I am out and about and todays photo is one of them. The bathtub in the field is an almost normal sighting in rural areas. A place for water or feed for livestock, I imagine. Most times they are near the barn or at least in the immediate vicinity, but this one wasn’t near…

December will be black and white month

In honor of a special announcement that I will make in a later post, I am going to post nothing but black and white images all month. Some may be new, some may be from the archives. Yes, that’s right, no colorful holiday photos. But I will most likely have holiday theme photos later in the month and you’ll just have…

I did manage to get one B&W image yesterday

As a follow-up to my last post, I did manage to find one image from the cemetery shoot that worked best in black and white. It’s an obvious cemetery scene but I like the setting of the old and weathered tombstones. With nothing but stone and green grass I knew immediately the it was an ideal candidate for black and white. This is…

I went to the cemetery expecting to shoot black and white

But after I got home and reviewed the images I found that a majority of them worked better in color. Maybe it was because it was nearing sunset and the light was nice or maybe  because I just wasn’t seeing the textures I was expecting. Either way it was a decent shoot considering I spent barely a half hour there.…

Not staying within the lines

It looks like the fall color is coming to an end soon, judging by what I saw today while driving around. That’s too bad, because I found a new life with it after getting bored taking “normal” shots, I started to experiment. I found the color a nice backdrop, and sometimes even the “subject”, for my multi-exposure photos. Considering the…

Bricks, lots of bricks

I find most red brick buildings uninteresting as far as photography is concerned. The color and small consistent patterns usually makes for a dull photo. If I can find something of interest where a brick building is concerned I usually convert to black and white which takes away the distracting color and makes you concentrate on the lines instead. But today…