monochrome

a day without color

October 2, 2017Art, Photo Essay, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, monochrome, photography, postaday, RemembranceAndrew Seal View all 6 comments

I think you know me well enough by now to know where my thoughts are today. Our memorable visit to family in Las Vegas in April 2015 included a visit to the magnificent Red Rock Canyon only a forty minute drive from Downtown and which I featured on Day 115 of my 365 day challenge that year. On returning home it led to a painting of the Canyon featured on Day 134 together with its accompanying colorful palette. Today’s image is that same palette in monochrome, a way for me to express without words my feelings of sorrow, heartache and sympathy for all those lost and suffering from the tragic events that have taken place in a city that is always so full of life, color and excitement.

Cambridge’s Bridge of Sighs, St. John’s College

a monochrome monday

October 17, 2016Pen and Ink, UncategorizedArt, Art studio, bouquet, Monday Bouquet, monochrome, pen and ink drawingAndrew Seal View all 8 comments

bouquet of the imagination 17.10.16

Studio 365: Day 189

July 8, 2015Painting, Studio 365, Uncategorized365, Art, Art studio, Corot, monochrome, photography, postaday, watercolorAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

Lessons from the Great Masters Day 8, part 1 – 8.7.15

Today’s lesson was entitled Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: balance of light and dark elements. The image started simply with a light wash followed by dark solid shapes leaving sky-holes within the foliage and painting a single tree-trunk within the reserved white of the sky. Highlights were created scraping the paint away with a sharp knife. Look for the color exercise tomorrow.

One Four Challenge: Nov Wk 4 – Poll

November 27, 2014Photo-Editing Challenge, photography, Uncategorizedmonochrome, photo editing, photography, postadayAndrew Seal View all 6 comments

The original negative, still pristine after forty-five years, followed by the cropped image and its four variations for Robyn’s One Four Challenge. If you have a moment let me know your favorite with the poll at the end.

if you go down to the woods today

November 14, 2014photo101, Uncategorizedmonochrome, photography, photography 101, postaday, woodsAndrew Seal View all 21 comments

Photography 101: Mystery – Today, share an image that creates a sense of mystery.

Monochrome Madness Week 34

October 22, 2014Monochrome Madness, Uncategorizedblack and white photography, monochrome, photography, postaday, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 3 comments

$refraction iii$

My submission to Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Week 34, with a little colorful modification, is the sparkling crystal chandelier from the Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction. Visit Leanne’s blog to see all the other Monochrome Madness images in her wonderful gallery this week; you won’t be disappointed.

Although I took this photo over forty years ago the memory of the moment is as fresh as if it were yesterday. As to the title, a number of ideas came to mind, Heat Wave, Wavelength, Wave to the camera, but none was quite what I wanted. I chose Arpeggio to suggest all the different sounds coming from the wave crashing against the walkway in rapid succession.

Please visit Leanne Cole’s blog to see all of the great submissions to today’s Monochrome Madness Gallery.

Color v Monochrome: The Poll of the Century

May 25, 2014Photo Essay, UncategorizedAnsel Adams, black and white photography, blog poll, landscape, monochrome, New Mexico, photography, Photoshop Elements, Plaza Blanca, postaday, Snapseed, travel, weekly photo challengeAndrew Seal View all 16 comments

All right, I admit it is perhaps a slight exaggeration but hopefully it caught your attention. Let me explain… and there will be a poll at the end.

My recent post Monochrome Enchantment was inspired by a superb exhibition at the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe of the works of Ansel Adams. Landscape photography never looked more breathtaking and I came away in awe of the drama and beauty of Ansel Adams’s black and white view of the world and a greater understanding as to why he is considered one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century. Continue reading →