Monochrome Gallimaufry

Cee’s Black & White Challenge together with Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge was the first challenge in which I participated. So it’s with a heavy heart that I am saying good-bye to CBWC. I learned a lot about monochrome photography (as I generally did from Cee’s Challenges). Like many (I suspect) I take my photos almost exclusively in colour and only give it a monochrome, selective colour or desaturated treatment afterwards on my PC.

Cee has asked for our favourite monochrome photos so I went back and browsed through eight years of monochromes and picked a few.

If you have a black cat you have to feature it in at least one monochrome photo. So here is Henry as a toddler five years ago:

Talking of young ones, here are two:

and another one, this time not in black and white but in sepia:

As well as a whole bundle of littlies:

This one of a tapir is one of my favourite whimsical photos:

Sculptures often lend themselves well to monochrome treatment. My personal favourite is this shot of the well muscled back of the god Pan:

I usually don’t like robbing flowers of their colours but there is always the exception to the rule:

Most of the time, however, I can’t make up my mind:

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Finale

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Sideways Queue

I’m not really back from holidays. I don’t want to be back. But I peaked in today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt and I couldn’t resist sharing this photo. It’s a queue. A queue of flamingoes. They did come closer to our resort’s beach and I will show photos of them at a later stage. But how could I resist this prompt?

BTW: The fly by (actually quite a few fly byes during half an hour) was spectacular.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Queue

Fly, Baby, Fly!

… up up in the sky!

I had no plans on taking part in any challenges next week. We have a very excited grandson here who is waiting avidly for his holiday with his dad and his grandparents beginning on Sunday. There will be a lot of firsts for him: first time going south, first time at the seaside, the Mediterranean in fact, first time in a non-German speaking country (except for a short weekend with a border hop to France), and the first time on a plane.

We will be leaving Frankfurt – flying over the only city in Germany who has something akin to a skyline.

Our plane will probably not be as colourful as those two:

Since we will be inside it doesn’t matter.

We will be up in the air, leaving only a jet stream behind.

Which may look like this if the virgin passenger can’t stop wriggling excitedly in his seat:

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The Sky Is the Limit

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After our misunderstanding last weekend ( –> Henry’s Ordeal ) we were treated with some disdain by our cat. He looked away purposefully whenever we tried to approach him:

I resorted to bribery:

It seems to have worked; the men were united once again:

Whereas I was noticeably considered an intruder:

“What’s a matter, you!? Gotta no respect?!”

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Cat