Scott Mathews – Grass Island, Owens River

Grass Island, Owens River copyright 2021 Scott Mathews - I find many natural landscape photographs to be very meditative in nature, especially those which are rendered in black & white.  The more abstract qualities of black & white for me allows these images to appear more poetic, which I feel is evident as in my recent...

Roger Bennett – Boulder, Creek, Limekiln State Park

Boulder, Creek, Limekiln State Park, California, copyright Roger Bennett 2021 - I had recently wrote about a photographic group critique that I attend at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (IFAC) for a non-profit organization call the Photographers Exchange. We had the opportunity to actual have this meeting in person to show and discuss physical prints...

Do monochrome photos require pure blacks and whites?

Nick Brandt, The Day May Break, copyright 2021 - By Douglas Stockdale This question, 'do monochrome photos require pure blacks and whites?' was a somewhat rhetorical question that was asked by a good friend of mine on social media recently. This question may relate back to the years of modern photography espoused by photo-realist like...