Learning to see in black and white while shooting is challenging for me. Participating in Leanne Cole PHOTOGRAPHY weekly Monochrome Madness has certainly helped me to see different. Going through my archives I have been finding photos that work well in monochrome. This week’s image is of a lemon tree blossom from this spring. Soon these once fragrant blossoms, that are now lemons, will be ready for picking and photographing!
Recently I wrote an article Monochrome – Is It My Style and this image continues with my search for the answer. Perusing my archives looking at images from a different perspective, along with cleaning out my files, I came across this image. If you have been following me for a while, you know that wildflowers are my passion when it comes to photography. While you might think this is an interesting wildflower or a weed, it is actually the seed head of a Silver Puff (Uropappus lindleyi) wildflower. A small yellow wildflower typically not noticed until it goes to seed and is native to the Western United States.. The seed head is approximately 1 inch in diameter. The USDA has it classified as Microseris lindleyi.
This image was made about a year and a half ago, the same day as photos from my post Eek! That’s a Rattlesnake! When processing my images from that day, it did not occur to me to convert this image to black and white, but as I have been working on seeing and processing that genre, it caught my attention. During processing, I burned some areas, added a vignette and used a blue filter.
This image appears in the Monochrome Madness gallery at Leanne Cole PHOTOGRAPHY.
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