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Drink to me only with thine eyes ....

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup
And I'll not ask for wine.

Ben Johnson

I dont like B&W photography much.. cept in very rare cases. This is possibly the only time I will convert a pic from colour to B&W .. and I still not sure it works.... but this was the quote I wanted to use !

The colour original was taken for Jay.... we were 4000 miles apart . Pic taken 10th January 2006.

I made the frame

"Wine" for the Poetography Group

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Taken on Tuesday January 10, 2006
Posted on Tuesday February 17, 2015
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Shuttering Yukon said:

well there is where we differ, I am addicted to b-w... years ago that is all I used for film... It brings out the beauty in ƃuᴉHʇʎɹƎʌǝ! It has depth and shadows that normally you don't see. I like it better if the shot is taken in b-w rather than converted, in my eyes there is a difference.

anyway... this is a beautiful picture, a wonderful quote and perfect processing!

10 years ago

Pam J replied to Shuttering Yukon:

Life is colour.. ask anyone losing their sight... or blind later in life ... what they miss.. they will answer colour.

Colour emulsions were expensive and bad.... one had to use B&W... but it isnt Life.

I DO like it for SOME architecture.... and I do agree there is a big difference in actual and converted . This I darkened as well to achieve something like I had in mind. Also I only had a cwappy cheap camera.. and the pic didnt start life all that great anyway.

I see B&W used so often wrongly ...people seem to feel its the "thing" to use.. and so often... it loses everything.

Horses for courses.. and B&W is still very specialist.

10 years ago