Category Archives: Black & White

Locked-In

Posted on Fri, 19 August, 2022 by LensScaper

At some point over the last two and a half years all of us will have experienced some form of Lock Down. Our liberty was curtailed. In the UK there was a period when one could only leave the house … Continue reading →

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Back to the Mountains

Posted on Mon, 9 December, 2019 by LensScaper

It’s the season of short days and long nights; time to work on the image archives. I’m busy preparing a new iteration of a talk about Alpine photography titled ‘High ‘n Wild with a Camera’ and in the process re-living … Continue reading →

Posted in Black & White, Swiss Alps - Summer | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

The White Coat

Posted on Fri, 8 November, 2019 by LensScaper

How often do you shoot an image, get back home and load the image onto your screen, and see something you never thought was in the frame when you pressed the shutter. That’s what happened with this shot taken earlier … Continue reading →

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Shapes

Posted on Thu, 20 June, 2019 by LensScaper

This is the exterior of the Towner gallery in Eastbourne. On our first visit, I was captivated more by the exterior than by the content of the interior. A sparse, almost minimalist, concrete facade that when reduced to two dimensions … Continue reading →

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Line of Descent

Posted on Tue, 11 December, 2018 by LensScaper

Winter and shorter hours of daylight brings benefits, one is more time indoors to catch up on some long overdue processing, particularly B&W conversions. The three images in this post go back quite a few years, two of them to … Continue reading →

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Beach Walkers

Posted on Mon, 3 December, 2018 by LensScaper

Autumn has occupied my attention for several weeks to the exclusion of other images. It’s time to change the genre. Today’s image goes back a few weeks to a beautiful day when we went back to Littlehampton on the south … Continue reading →

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Harley

Posted on Fri, 12 October, 2018 by LensScaper

I’ve never owned a Harley Davidson and I’m never likely to, but that doesn’t stop me getting excited by the sight of one, or the sound of one. A couple of weeks ago we had an event in town called … Continue reading →

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Subway

Posted on Mon, 30 April, 2018 by LensScaper

I was in London last friday and used a new access point into the Underground (subway) at Victoria station (one day re-development will be finally over). New corridors: largely empty, inherent contrast, angular lines. Perfect for B&W images. There’s going … Continue reading →

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Walking around the perimeter_1

Posted on Mon, 26 March, 2018 by LensScaper

Life is about finding solutions and compromises to day-to-day issues. Shopping for example. Men aren’t much good at patiently waiting while their wives shop, and wives certainly don’t like their husbands fidgeting around while they shop. When we go to … Continue reading →

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The last evening

Posted on Sat, 3 March, 2018 by LensScaper

Finally, on our last evening in Whistler, there were rays of light over the distant horizon as the sun started to dip. This was the view from our bedroom, and the only time the dSLR got used on the whole … Continue reading →

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