Black And White On A Grey Day

Though it's often been sunny while I've been at work recently, as soon as I've had a day off it's been dull and drizzly. Not just cloudy, but twilight-at-noon gloomy. As a result I haven't wandered far from the glittering but gruelling treadmill of Christmas shopping and I'm better prepared for the holiday season than I've ever been. So much so that, despite the lack of new photos, I've been reappraising some older images and experimenting with a little back to basics black-and-white, courtesy of the computer.

A woodland landscape from the parkland surrounding Hatfield House. 

A yellow filter effect has brought out the dappled light

 and the contrast between deciduous and coniferous trees. 

You may remember this lady,

photographed candidly on the streets of Cambridge.

This is the same shot I showed you before,

I love the stillness and serenity

and it seems to work well in monochrome.

Flowers are not the most obvious choice for a black and white treatment.

This rose was photographed, I think, at Anglesey Abbey.

I desaturated all the colours except the red,

which has left this subtle pinkish tinge on the petals.

Not quite B/W perhaps.

Another shot from the cemetery in Cambridge.

This was just a muddle in full colour, but

now it has just a little more structure in the overgrown chaos.

A touch of sepia tone

for a shot of ivy stems elbowing their way

up an old tree trunk.

Musicians who accompany the marvellously eccentric

Morris dancers known as

"Bunnies From Hell".

They are famous for wearing shocking pink.

They were doing their inimitable thing

at Thriplow Daffodil Day back in the spring.

A gloomy day at

Fenstanton Lakes bird reserve.

Maybe I should have been out

 taking photos in this drab weather after all.

Take care.