Monochrome Mini Competition #420

This is a monochrome-themed competition that is open to all CiC members.

ENTERING. Add your MONOCHROME/B&W image in a new post below. Make sure to change your post title to a name for your picture (click the "Go Advanced" button). Only one entry per person, and any tinted images should utilize no more than one color. For help posting images, go here.

VOTING. When this competition reaches 10 entries, a poll will be automatically added and any member may then vote. After 2 days, voting ends and the winner is determined.

Once voting begins, a new competition will be automatically started.

Good luck!

Notes: Please do not request feedback or comment on other images until after voting has closed, as it could be unfair to other entrants. Photos must be your own, and never entered into one of our prior competitions. We also ask that only recently taken or edited photos be used as entries (in the spirit of motivating everyone to continually improve).

PS: Make sure to also vote on the previous competition here.

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Gap by Wendy FS, on Flickr

Wendy

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Ryo

http://i43.tinypic.com/24zaao4.jpg

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http://i43.tinypic.com/10ib885.jpg

San Antonio, Texas

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IMGP7690B&W by ebamismoi, on Flickr

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http://i43.tinypic.com/2e54i0p.jpg

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a..._1804bw1-1.jpg

Quote:

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Originally Posted by MiniChris

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ONE of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew—
Only more sure of all I thought was true.

22 Layer Comps and a whole bunch of experimentation in developing a B&W workflow I like. Thanks for sharing my vision and interpretation of Robert Frost's 1915 poem.

Chris your photo ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!! I was thinking about it at work today. Very well done!

Congratulations Chris, It is a wonderful image, and lovely poem :)

In overall terms, that's got to be one of the best series of 10 B & W images that's been seen for a long time.

It's great to see so many people now back into producing high quality B & W digital images.