August 2014 Monthly Photo Comp. entry - black&white

[kman]

The topic for this month is: black and white

Fairly open topic, looking to see what people have done in black and white photography - low saturation or monochromatic images fine too.

This thread is for entries only

Good Luck!

Khalid

Rules:

The photos taken must be your own work
The competition will run from the first to the last day of the month.
The winner from the previous month decides on the topic for following month and judges it at the end of the month
There will be two threads that need starting: The Entries thread to commence same time as Discussion thread. In the Entries thread only one picture should be entered. Any others you wish to discuss should be posted in the Discussion thread.
All entrants acknowledge that they may indeed win and that their adherence to convention ensures everyone else's continued fun.
Photos entered should be no bigger than 750 pixels wide for a landscape photo and 600 pixels high for a portrait photo due to the PH squash factor. Links to larger versions are permissible.

[Morbid]

OK, I'll start the ball rolling...

IMG_0125 e2 by [e-mail], on Flickr

[cornet]

I'll throw one into the hat too

[Yellabelly]

Tabitha 1 by ray_blake, on Flickr

Edited by Yellabelly on Thursday 14th August 02:10

[CB2152]

I think this is my first entry on one of these, and as it's Pistonheads, I'll throw this one in I think:


Prancing Horse F360 by Chris_Aero1, on Flickr

[MM93]

Dakota @ Yeovilton Air Day 2014. by notpennysboat17, on Flickr

[Mini1275]

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida by DanB-Photography, on Flickr

[Pupp]

ClareBridge by pupp777, on Flickr

[LeighW]

Luss Church by Leigh_ W, on Flickr

[anonymous-user]

[Pete Baraka]

Here's our Ivo catching the breeze - He's a black & white collie -



Pete

[V8Wagon]

Took a stroll along Brighton seafront tonight.

Edited by V8Wagon on Monday 18th August 00:20

[Dan_1981]

Whitby Pier by Dan_1981, on Flickr

[RenesisEvo]

Young Passion (BW) by Renesisevo, on Flickr

PS please click on it as the thumbnail compression ruins the sharpness IMO

Edited by RenesisEvo on Monday 25th August 09:18

[christopha200]

Revival '12 1930s BW Autounion by christopha 200, on Flickr

[kman]

Ok all, thank you for the entries. A good number of participants and happy to say all the images have good qualities in them.

So, here are my picks, in 3rd place I picked christopha200's image of the classic racing car:

Revival '12 1930s BW Autounion by christopha 200, on Flickr

Technically, the highlights a little too bright however I like the contrasty lighting and the image overall invokes an interesting story and leaves the viewer intrigued about the number 5 car and the driver/mechanic standing over it.

2nd place goes to Morbid for this cute little thing:



Beautiful soft lighting and depth of field and captured a strong pose. I can't decide if I like the close crop to engage the viewer with the cat's stare more than cutting off bits of the cat at the bottom. Help's that i have a thing for cats!

Ok now for the winner. Honestly I'm a cat man rather than dog, but this image is really cool. Lovely wide aperture image, caught a great strong pose, lovely composition and the black and white processing is perfect imo.

Congrats to Pete Baraka

[Morbid]

Congrats Pete. Very well deserved, that's a fantastic shot.

[Pete Baraka]

Oh wow, thank you very much Khalid - There were some great entries this month.

I'll create some new threads for the September competition!

[Yellabelly]

Well done Pete, look forward to seeing the subject, as a mate I will not be entering I could not contemplate the feelings of being rejected