Tag Archives: Black and White Photography

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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A day at the seaside

Posted on Tue, 11 June, 2019 by LensScaper

West Wittering beach near Chichester is a great beach to visit when the tide is out. There are channels that cut across the beach so that the middle-ground often contains water and adds to the interest and drama when shooting … Continue reading →

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Sail Boat

Posted on Fri, 7 June, 2019 by LensScaper

Hello everyone. As you can see I’m not dead! It’s almost three months since I last posted anything on this blog. That’s a long time, and a longer time than I intended. When you stop doing something, for whatever reason, … Continue reading →

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An intruder in the snow-scape

Posted on Sun, 10 March, 2019 by LensScaper

To ski down you have to travel up. One of the ski areas above Zermatt is served by the Gornergrat cog railway that terminates at Gornergrat – a place that has featured repeatedly  in my posts. From there the skier … Continue reading →

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Sculpted

Posted on Wed, 6 March, 2019 by LensScaper

This image follows on from my previous post – Click here to view. Glaciers look totally different in summer from what they do in winter. This is the Gorner glacier (2,000ft below me) clad in its winter cloak of snow … Continue reading →

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Specks of Humanity

Posted on Mon, 4 March, 2019 by LensScaper

One of the difficulties I face as a photographer, who also skis, is how to portray the vastness of the mountain-scape through which we travel. One of the answers is to include fellow adventurers in the image. When fellow skiers … Continue reading →

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Half buried but alive

Posted on Sat, 23 February, 2019 by LensScaper

Winter is tough when for several months you are half buried in snow, but the coniferous trees of the Alps are used to it and they do indeed survive. This image was taken within a minute or two of the … Continue reading →

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Matterhorn North Face

Posted on Tue, 19 February, 2019 by LensScaper

Skiing is the fastest way to move around the mountains, and it can get you to places that would take two or three hours to walk to. This is one of my favourite places in the Zermatt valley – Stafelalp, … Continue reading →

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Alpine monochromes

Posted on Thu, 31 January, 2019 by LensScaper

When I first started visiting the Alps fifty-five years ago, much of the photography that was on view in shop windows and on postcards was in black and white. The images had a starkness about them, the absence of colour … 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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