Digital Black and White

 As soon as I move into personal work I return to the black and white interpretation.  Not sure if it's a comfort zone, a resistance to the more complex decisions required to work in color, or if I simply see the world in black and white terms.

I have little reference to black and white in the digital realm and probably won't until I begin making prints on my Epson SureColor P800 printer.  I've not succeeded in climbing out of the urn of inertia yet.

I made this photograph under a heavy sky and was impressed at how textured and overbearing the sky felt without bringing any sort of invasive weather.  Just seemed like God was painting.

I return, over and over, to these isolated landscapes.  I continue to sense freedom in them.  Not so much physical but mental as the noise of modern life gives way to some space for thought.  Looking at this picture I see no cares or concerns -- just a feeling of not being commanded to perform.

Did not make it into the chemical darkroom yet.  I did expose several frames of Ilford HP5 today with the Hasselblad.  This scene as well.  Hopefully something will stir me to process film.

Black and White Views

More and more I find myself drawn back toward black and white images.  The simplicity of not having to deal with color seems to be more closely aligned to how I see, or process things personally.
These images were made while casually looking -- the first during a walk with the dogs in the garden and the second while riding the Vespa.

Not sure what to make of either of them aside from sensing a connection between what I saw and how I feel looking at them now.  That's something right?