I have talked before, in posts, about things early in life that spawned my lifelong love of photography and being a photographer. Early on, National Geographic and Life Magazine were poured through by me with hardly a word read. It was all about the photos. In college I began to look more and more at the drama and beauty of black and white photographs. I loved, and love, monochromatic landscapes and portraits. Mono communicates a much different emotion than color does. To me mono images invite a longer look, a deeper examination of texture and relationship of light and dark. I was actually the darkroom tech for the Coast Press when Terry Plowman was there in the late ’70s and I eventually built a darkroom in my house in the ’80s to process and print film. Today I shoot digitally and use computer software to convert an image created in color, in camera, to create a black and white image. I think this photograph of sunset at Cape Henlopen, a scene many of have seen many times over the years, is distinctively different seen in black and white.
