Category: Black and White

The season for sitting outside

“Sitting watching the world go by” is something I love doing. Especially if it’s in a pavement café where I can simultaneously indulge in another passion, namely enjoying a great coffee or a tasty treat. And, where better in my book, than the pavement cafes, bars and restaurants of Italy, where there’s the best chance of proper coffee, fabulous food and eye-catching scenery. Regular visitors to my blogs and people who know me will recognise some of the images in […]

Tasteful photos & projects in the pipeline

I’m in the process of developing a couple of photo “projects”. The first involves reviewing some of my picture folders to develop a portfolio of images that lend themselves to black and white versions. Inherent in that exercise is experimenting and learning different techniques of conversion that create impressive, eye-catching and, let’s be honest, marketable images. The second project revolves around another extensive set of images that I’ve captured over the last few years, and is centred on a favourite […]

Seductive Shades of Grey(scale)

People that know me and visitors to my website will be aware that we have a love for Italy, and we are lucky enough to make frequent trips to enjoy the sites, sights, landscape, culture, people, food and wine of that amazing Country, especially the region of Tuscany. The colours of Italy are vibrant and lend themselves to “contrasty” images. But that also means that those red, blue and green channels can look pretty captivating in shades of grey.