Beauties in monochrome

What do we like most about flowers? I think it is color.. Or at least color attracts our attention and makes us turn our heads towards these stunning flowers. And today we are lucky because we have a small (but amazing) device in our pocket that allows us to capture this beauty instantly and have it on our screen any time we want to see it again... But not so long ago we did not have this luxury. Photography meant black-and-white film... and the world of images was monochrome. Yet people still loved taking photographs and printing them.

 

Colorless

What is it about flowers that captivates us most? The vivid burst of colors, undoubtedly. Those vibrant hues that beckon us closer, urging us to take a moment and marvel at nature's palette. But let me share a moment from my photographic journey - one day, amidst the petals and leaves, something peculiar happened. As I peered through the viewfinder, what greeted me wasn't the expected riot of colors but a world cast in black and white. Intrigued, I decided to strip the flowers of their vibrant hues, stepping back in time to an era where black and white film was the norm.

 

Winter. Colorless details.

The art of photography is relatively young. Just under two hundred years old. Not surprisingly, it wasn't the same during all these years. And most of the time the pictures were colorless. Even 40-50 years ago we still mostly lived in the world of black-and-white pictures and no one felt bad about that. Now we cannot even imagine to see the picture with the color stripped off but... Sometimes the black and white is an interesting option to explore.