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Today’s landscape photos come from reader Jim Blilie. Jim’s descriptions are indented, and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
I’ve been having some fun participating in a Facebook group for black and white landscape photography. I’ve been revisiting many of my old images in software (Lightroom), creating what you might think of as “new prints” in black and white only.
These are all landscape photos from Washington and Oregon.
First a group from Cannon Beach, Oregon, a favorite retreat for us when the summer weather at our home in Klickitat County, Washington gets too hot:
Then three from the Palouse, the rolling loess-soil, wheat-growing region of Washington State (primarily) near Pullman, Washington, where our son, Jamie is now a junior studying engineering at Washington State University:
Then a photo of Mount Hood taken in winter from our place:
Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) leaves taken this past spring in Oregon:
Finally: A photo of Baker Lake, taken in September 1989 on a kayaking trip. This is scanned Tri-X Pan film:
Ahhh – simple beauty!
Damn. You are very good, James. A beautiful batch of photos. All of them are very evocative. I think B&W is especially good at that.
Really lovely. I especially like the last one. Very evocative.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful memory prints, Jim B. Cannon Beach is one of my favorite places in the Pacific NW and, as a WSU grad, I spent a number of years driving through and spooning in the wheat fields of the Palouse. Wonderful memories all. But my favorite print was your picture of Mt. Hood. Moody and mysterious, I keep revisiting it in my mind.
These B&W are absolutely wonderful, Jim. The Ansel Adams of WEIT! The view of Mt Hood from your place reminded me of what a great home you have settled into out there. The Haystack Rock photos prompted me to look up the interesting geological history of that formation. Thanks.
We’ve been to all these places, except for Baker Lake. Your photos capture them beautifully.
Very nice. The Oregon coast is beautiful.
Very nice! I very much admire B&W photography, and it’s one of the things I want to try more.
I can recommend that you try Intentional Camera Movement photography, and multiple exposures. I’ve been having a lot of fun with them with my macro photography, and one thing about it is that the results are hard to control! So it’s exciting to see what appears in the viewfinder.
Evocative, beautiful.
Great artistic, black and white shots!
Outstanding J.B. Top shelf, really beautiful. Thank you.
D.A.
NYC
Love the B/W – Thank you!!
I love Tri-X.
These are spectacular, Jim. The composition, the mood, really special.