This Sunday at Lost in Translation, Paula asks us to show her a black and white version of a colour original. This summer shot was taken from the back of our house looking towards Wenlock Edge as the sun was going down.
Just over the garden fence we have a strip of ground that grows itself each year – mostly self-seeded foxgloves, columbine, corn cockle, moon daisies and opium poppies along with some perennial lemon balm, spearmint and oregano. It’s a treat waiting to see what will happen there every summer. Just thinking of this brightens a rather gloomy January day here in Shropshire.
Now here’s the original colour shot:
And now I can’t resist posting some more transformations in and around Much Wenlock. Clearly, some work better than others, but in any event, as Paula says, it helps one to see with fresh eyes:
Tish Farrell 
Each of them interesting in their own way. The second image (the original) looks like selective colouring too. Thank you for this Tish.
I think that’s how it came out 🙂
I know, and it is cool.
ooooo – you gave us a tasty four images to soak up.
On the first, I much prefer the B & W, on the second and third, I like the color versions a tad bit more, and it is a complete tie for the fourth. and what different moods each photo evokes individually, but then all four have verticals that flow in a post like this….
I like the way the mood changes too in different formats. Many thanks for your perspective, Yvette.
🙂
have a nice day
You too, Yvette. I love all the enthusiasm you send out over the world wide web. Energizing vibes!
and the self-growing garden area is jam packed with goodies. Our home in Denver had lilacs that came up from a covered stone patch – the tall purple blooms were a gift. I have tried to grow lilac and it was the most stubborn shrub I have ever worked with. Never really took off in my garden…. whereas most everything else I tried did
Love the lonely walker, looking even more solitary in monochrome!
That’s my favourite too. Handy when you can use other half as a scenic addition.
Indeed! 😀
I think they all look good in black and white, very interesting.
Thank you, Joan.
As I always notice , the B&W versions are a lot more dramatic and solemn than the colour ones…..
Here I find the same sensation on the four of them!
(Let me add that they’re beautiful!)
I like all except the last best in colour, which surprises me really.
The windmill and the lane suit black and white to me. Especially the lane.
All of them are beautiful, Tish. Every photo speaks their own words…
Thank you, Nurul. High praise indeed.
I love your images.
Cheers, Pete.
I love the different views. I like the last one better in black & white, but the others, I like both versions. They are different, but each good in its own way. Well done 🙂
Thank you.
You chose 4 great captures, Ruth, for the comparisons. I particularly like the second photo but the color version. The coloring of the field and it’s shading under the cloud is where the beauty lies, to my eye, and it’s lost when shown in monochrome. Looking at it again, however, had I not been given the choice, I would been much more positive about the monochrome version.