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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