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This thread is just for black and white photographs. Your own or ones you've come across on the web or elsewhere. I'll get us started.....

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Here's a couple.

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Aw, those are nice, Spot. I especially like the one of the duck.

RedGlitter;942304 wrote: Aw, those are nice, Spot. I especially like the one of the duck.


It was sat there completely oblivious to the 400 pound gorilla ten yards from it. I'd not have been, there was a considerable telephoto on that shot.

Wow! Good job on the pelican (?) too. I like how you filled one side rather than centering the bird. Who is the statue of and who is the child? That one's really cute.

RedGlitter;942314 wrote: Wow! Good job on the pelican (?) too. I like how you filled one side rather than centering the bird. Who is the statue of and who is the child? That one's really cute.


Edmund Burke in the town centre, Felicity, and the leg's mine.

She's very cute and I rarely comment on children. Heck, that one should be framed.

More to the point I should show it to the child's mother sometime. I keep telling her Felicity likes me. She keeps saying that Felicity has too much sense to be that daft.

Here's two interesting photos I found.

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Nice ones, AFTR

I had a Polaroid like the one on the table in the office there.

I like the effects of the newspaper pile under the table and the old typewriter on the desk.

Here are a few more I've come across...

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I know too little about getting the resolution onto a display instead of onto paper, I ought to buy a book or do a course. This is the closest I can get with Jock. Watching him is interesting in that he has no vocal language that I can relate to but he has very evident thoughts that seem indistinguishable to mine. How does he manage to think them without words?

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How does he manage to think them without words?


Doesn't that make you wonder. I have no offering of an idea how but it's a good thing to wonder about. Are you familiar with KoKo? KoKo Talks How do you suppose she can do that? You did a fabulous job of capturing Jock's face. What kind of camera do you like to use, Spot?

Bump, hoping Spot will tell me about his camera specs.

RedGlitter;943694 wrote: Bump, hoping Spot will tell me about his camera specs.


I was rather embarrassed to go into that. I spent $120 on a Kodak EasyShare Z1275 and that's the only digital camera I've got, it's where all the pictures I posted to this thread and my FG album came from. It took me two days reading the manual before I powered it on and gave it a go, it's very different from my 35mm cameras.

When I was in short trousers I had a 127 Kodak Brownie one Christmas and I still have the prints and negatives from that. Going through school I upgraded to a bellows 120 and a 4x5" plate camera, and then an East German Exa SLR which I used for years and upgraded to an Olympus OM2 with a good telephoto lens. Those are what I learned on. I had a 120 Bronica ETLR that ended up with my daughter, that was fun because I preferred the fine grain for colour work. I'm not sure I'd go back to any of those now.

I'd quite like to try something that can capture 1080 24p movie, that's where I'm working toward. Something with either instant focus or a manual focus on the lens, and a manual telephoto. That would give me adequate still pictures as well probably.

Plate and bellows? How cool. I am really impressed that you understand how to work with those types of cameras as I don't have any understanding of camera operations, like aperture and such and much as I'd like to learn, I lack the required patience. I use my digital and I also have a basic Canon T-50 that I love. And like you, when I got my digital I looked at it for two days because I was intimidated by the gizmos.

I really like your photos, Spot. There is life within them. I'm glad you joined this thread. :-6

Oooo!!! Nice ones, Chezzie!! I love the first one- look at all that movement!

AFTR i love that one with the little girls on the beach. It looks like the girl on the sand is actually hovering above the sand:-3:wah:

A few more....

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Lovely Red:-6 i love the ones with people in them,,, that one of the woman standin in the window is great:D

Thanks! I like the ones with people too. People are interesting. And I also like the ones with a lot of different textures in them. Like the railroad tracks lain among the gravel. I've always liked railroad tracks and trestles for some weird reason. I make wishes when I pass trestles. I have no idea how I came to do that. Have done it for years.

RedGlitter;947019 wrote: Thanks! I like the ones with people too. People are interesting. And I also like the ones with a lot of different textures in them. Like the railroad tracks lain among the gravel. I've always liked railroad tracks and trestles for some weird reason. I make wishes when I pass trestles. I have no idea how I came to do that. Have done it for years.


:wah:you're funny:D

Awwww Red,



Love the black and white photos...especially the one of Spot and granddaughter...that one should be framed.



Will have to look for my black and white snow day on my other computer.



Thank you...this is one of my favorite threads.....

kazalala;947052 wrote: :wah:you're funny:D


:wah: :-6

Hey that's nice Kathy Ellen! Thank you! That pleases me. :-6

Yes, isn't that one of Felicity and Spot's leg a great one? He really should frame that if he hasn't already.

Looking out my back window on a snowy day....

My Mom when she was 20 years old. On this night she won a beauty contest at an Irish dance and met my Dad. He was smitten with her and asked her to marry him:-4

RedGlitter;941597 wrote: This thread is just for black and white photographs. Your own or ones you've come across on the web or elsewhere. I'll get us started.....


I love the one of the moon against the tree, I think I'll save that one!

Kathy Ellen;956377 wrote: My Mom when she was 20 years old. On this night she won a beauty contest at an Irish dance and met my Dad. He was smitten with her and asked her to marry him:-4






Aw!!! What a lovely story!!:-4

Now we know where you get your lovely smile!:-4

Pinky;956387 wrote: Aw!!! What a lovely story!!:-4

Now we know where you get your lovely smile!:-4


Thanks Pinky...you're a luv:-4

I came across this old photo on the web. I wonder what she was thinking.

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Kathy Ellen;956377 wrote: My Mom when she was 20 years old. On this night she won a beauty contest at an Irish dance and met my Dad. He was smitten with her and asked her to marry him:-4



Oh how gorg is that....what a lovely woman:-4;)

along-for-the-ride;977762 wrote: I came across this old photo on the web. I wonder what she was thinking.


Wow, that's a striking one. I can almost feel the fabric on that

girl's blouse. It's got all kinds of textures going on....the wrinkled fabric, the girl's hand on the rough windowsill, whatever that metal looking stuff is on the other side of her. Stern face. Wow. Good one!

I love B&W photographs, I always think they look so classy!

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Those are beautiful Dubs!! The first one especially grabbed me.

If the first one's the Town Hall, Dubsy, I demonstrated in front of that once.

along-for-the-ride;977762 wrote: I came across this old photo on the web. I wonder what she was thinking.


She looks scared

spot;978044 wrote: If the first one's the Town Hall, Dubsy, I demonstrated in front of that once.


It is Spot. It's Manchester town hall. I got it from the RIBA website..

http://www.ribapix.org/