I’m just going to come clean here. I have been low on photo inspiration this past week. You see, I am a colour girl. Much of the time it’s colour that catches my eye and motivates me to take the shot. Last week I was in Mexico, surrounded by gorgeous colour and light. Sadly, this week I am home and all I am seeing is grey, grey, and more grey. Fortunately, when I seek inspiration the Mortal Muses Flickr pools always deliver. A quick peruse through the Everyday Beauty pool led me to some images that not only did not suffer from a lack of colour, they celebrated it.
by Birgitte Brøndsted Photography
by tmosnaps
These images inspired me to get out and shoot with black and white in mind. Instead of colour, I looked for graphics, for repetition and for interesting shapes and light reflections — things that would translate well to black and white. I have to say that it was a bit of a challenge. My eye is even more trained than I thought to look for colour. I wasn’t happy with everything I shot but I did find some beauty in the everyday of my city, even in the grey.
If you feel discouraged
That there’s a lack of color here
Please don’t worry lover
It’s really bursting at the seams
Absorbing everything
The spectrum’s A to Z
– Death Cab for Cute — Lack of Color
Debra ~ Manifeisty
Thanks for this reminder, Debra – I need to learn to appreciate these monochrome landscapes, since I’m stuck with them for another few months.
What a wonderful inspiration & just in time as lately I too have been feeling uninspired. Thank you for sharing.
Debra, thank you for the inspiration. It’s been even more monochrome here recently with the snow and I love the way you’ve seen the it as an opportunity to try something new.
What a wonderful surprise to find my photo in this post. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for including me in your inspiration gallery. 🙂
Wonderful lyrics form Death Cab for Cute.
Beautiful images shared.
Well, I’m an admitted B&W lover so, I’m happy to see this post. That shot you captured is gorgeous and I love the song lyrics 🙂
oh Debra i am soooooo very honored to be included!!!! this is a great post and i am just so very pleased to be included with the really great shots!!!! thank you so very much!!!!!
Yes, I’m searching for color too here in frozen New England but I do LOVE these black and whites!