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Black and White

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Just spent the last 10 or so minutes swimming in the great images of the "book". Time well spent. Just goes to further show that any great photo / representational image is well over 90% lines & light. Color is but an embellishment, if you will... the icing on the cake, the butter on the toast, the sugar in the tea. Highly enjoyable, thank you.
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Ever since I saw an Ansel Adams print for the first time way back in my yute (My Cousin Vinny reference for those too young to remember), I have been a fan of black and white photography...sepia and Infrared as well. Color is distracting. When a subject is photographed sans color, you notice the texture, the weight, the shape, the solidness of that subject. Color...it dilutes, it pollutes.

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I think I really began to like black and white after we looked at studied pictures by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston in my high-school photography class.
This one is by Weston, and we all had to go around and tell the class what we saw in the picture. When our teacher told us what it really was I felt like an idiot for not seeing it before.
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