Photo Set: Animals (B&W)

In alphabetical order, I suppose:

 Gullwings. One up, one down.

 Power-pigeons. Grime and grime.

Sausages in the park.

 Trellick pigeon. I tried to focus on the bird but AF chose the building instead. Oh well.

Webdrops. 35mm goodness after the rain.

Chihuahua

Just playing with colour levels and shooting from-the-hip while on-the-move.

Should I have composed and centred the shot? Probably.
Do I care in this case? Nope.

Welcome Hearts

The recent sunshine is welcome addition to an English summer, we haven't had a dry one for a couple of years now. It also lends itself to creating a lot of high contrast black & white compositions as well as overblowing highlights in certain pictures. I probably should get a ND filter of some kind, maybe a cheaper variable one (I'll be damned if I'm gonna spend serious coin on something I won't use much). For this post, however I thought I'd dig in my archive and find a nice colour pic.

Taken last year around May (before it started raining from June-September, haha). I was drawn to these little doors mainly because of the textures and contrasts between the different colours. Add the clay coloured wall, and it wouldn't look too out of place somewhere in South America. But this was on Regent's Canal, and those are a couple of old door panels from a canal boat.


I'll probably upload a whole batch of b&w photos next time; one-at-a-time is neat for analysis and reflection but some don't need it, they're just nice pictures.

Tail feathers

This black & white conversion thing I'm on is really addictive :)

I saw this man in the park sitting in front of a sprinkler, one of those sprinklers that rocks back-and-forth, spraying in a fan shape. The shape reminded me of a peacock's tail feathers. I just had to wait a few seconds for the sprinkler to tilt upwards, fortunately he was so engrossed in his book to give a damn about me pointing my lens in his direction.