It doesn't have to be in color

Personally, I like this picture a lot. It shows the delicate form and structure of a flower, the Arum or Aronskelk in Dutch.
I took this photo with the Jupiter-9 lens, a 85mm F2,0 Russian copy of the pre WWII Zeiss Sonnar design. I bought the lens of Ebay and it is still available in new condition. I had to get used to the lens design, because of its aperture ring and preset construction. Nevertheless, the lens is a beauty. And it delivers where it counts: picture quality.
Now, I'm no pixel peeper, so I judge image quality by contrast, color rendition and the illustrous 'bokeh': the rendering of out of focus picture elements. And this is where the Jupiter delivers, imo.

On to the photo itself and the title of this blog entry.

Off course, I first had a nice color photograph of this flower. But what is it that sets this flower apart from others flowers? Not it's color, but it's shape. That's why I choose the emphasize it's shape instead of it's color. And black and white -or more accurate: monochrome- photography does just that: emphasize graphical paterns, such as shapes and visual rhytm in a photo.

Another primary

Green, this time. K10D with Tamron 90mm F2,8 Macro lens.

Hope you like it.

Red

I stumbled upon a red papaver flower, or Klaproos in Dutch. Sometimes beauty equalls simplicity. The strong primary color of red contrasts beautifully with the subdued green. C&C welcome, off course.

War Memorial

Last week I visited a local War Memorial. My goal was to not only make pretty pictures, but was to make a visual translation of the impressions the Memorial made on me. Inspired by a three part Essay by George Barr on The Luminous Landscape, I try to take my photography to a next level.

Here are some pics I took, all taken with Pentax K10D.