B&W

I'd been enjoying the postings of friends who were participating in the "One B&W photo each day for 7 days without comment" challenge. Then I was challenged to participate. Now that I've completed the week, here are the seven together in order, followed by my partial pool of prospects. I'm sure that if I were to do it again, I'd choose different images to develop. That's not to say that I feel like I've chosen poorly here. And for those of you looking at them, there's no way to know what I stepped over to choose these (both the pool and the finalists) whether you like them or not.

The process wound up being more demanding than I'd expected, but it pushed me to review more than 30,000 photos. That was not quite as daunting as it might have been if I had not recently gone through the collection and deleted over 5,000. I had a fresh map of the territory, but selecting only seven seemed impossible. In a way, it was.

I considered whether my selections should make a statement or statements. Themes. Should I tell an intentional story? People? Places? Things? But what intrigued me most was the search for images that really worked the white-to-black palette in ways that strike me when I look again.

Here are the seven in order of posting, along with a little info on each. Following that are most of the finalists.

I hope you've enjoyed this as much as I have.