Day 244- Texture Tuesday (and my love affair with black and white. . .)

Last week, my photo buddy, Carol, took a fantastically clear photo of a white feather stuck in the weeds down by the water with her amazing Nikon D800. She didn’t post it to her blog, but I still remember it from when she was uploading her photos at my house. When I went to the same spot yesterday, the feather was still there! I took a couple quick photos, not nearly as clear as Carol’s, but, to be fair to my camera, I also didn’t take much time with it. Last night, I decided to use it for my Texture Tuesday photo. I love Kim’s textures and learned to not be afraid of Photoshop from her clear teaching style!

So, here it is, desaturated and layered with Kim Klassen’s dream it texture.

And now on to my love affair with black and whites!

I have always loved black and white photography. When I was in college taking photography, that was what I learned (and I wasn’t particularly good at it). My father had a darkroom in our garage, so I have many images of my children in black and white from when they were small. Now that there are digital cameras- and Lightroom and Photoshop- there are so many ways to process the same photo. I often try a black and white conversion along with my regular editing- especially when the color doesn’t add much to the photo, or there are strong lines (or strong emotions)- or just because. . .

So here is the feather with a more contrasty black and white treatment (no texture this time).

My Flickr group’s theme for today is starts with R. I got out some ribbons left over from a bridal shower I gave for my god-daughter, Andrea, a few years ago and took a few photos. This first one is how I originally envisioned the final image- pastels with a soft focus.