This will be the last b&w post for a minute or two as I’m starting to miss colors but then again you just never know when something will appear that just shines through in b&w. We shall see. This was taken early in spring this year at the local conservatory during the orchid show. I set my camera to fire off multiple shots and was able to capture a series of droplets falling and splashing. Not sure but I’m guessing the fountain is cast iron but whatever it is, it was very pretty to see it standing there bubbling and gurgling while surrounded by all of those beautiful orchids.
Levels, conversions, brushes and layer masks later….this came out and I was pleased with it. In b&w you can really sense the hard cold metal of the fountain; sense the wetness and see the grain and cracks in it as well as some of the ripples in the water are more defined.
Images by T.Dashfield Photography 
That is really lovely. It’s nice to see what a camera can capture and what a photographer can do with it.
The camera is only as good as the photographer wielding it 😉
I didn’t know they made fountains out of cast iron. I only thought it was out of cement or something!?!?! Looks beautiful!
You know, I could very well be wrong. It’s just that since it was black it looked like cast iron to me. Next time I go will have to thump it or something to check – or ask LOL Thanks.
Nicely done T! The blacks are black, the whites are white, and you caught the droplets of water in mid air! The fountain very well could be cast iron. They made them out of concrete/cement and cast iron before polymers and plastics. I used to deliver them when I worked for a wholesale garden supply company. Those buggers were HEAVY!
Those droplets in mid air almost make you want to reach out and try and touch one. Wow! I don’t even want to imagine trying to move one of those heavy things.
Love this! The tones are very nice, and with the still drops of water, it really does feel like a frozen moment in time! 🙂
Thank you! I’ve started to think of the drops like that scene in the Matrix where all of the bullets froze in mid air LOL
They do make fountains out of cast iron… lovely photo Mrs T. this one goes down well in B&W… the water is definitely more pronounced than what it would be in colour I think… but then who am I to say differently to the Master…
Not a grasshopper any longer but not a master either…working towards it day by day. Thanks 🙂
I really do like this, Teri, but I must admit I miss the color of the flowers. In not too many months, I’ll be living in a B&W world until the Spring bulbs surface. I’m not ready to surrender flower colors yet.
Have no fear! Color will be returning and shush about the weather changing. If I don’t think about it then it doesn’t exist!