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Throwback Thursday: ghost town
Today, I want to show you two versions of the same image. On the left, you can see the original color version, and to the right the derived monochrome version.
Throwback Thursday: ghost town
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Lens-Artists Photo Challange 169: “ordinary”
This week we have another guest host for The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: I.J. Khanewala of Don’t Hold Your Breath and she asks for the ordinary.
It’s fall. The rose apples or rose hips are ripe. You can see them when looking carefully around. Only about a centimeter long and half a centimeter diameter. 
Guess, what we have here, before reading further. I suspect you also have it at home. Probably in your fridge. A couple of eggs. Were you right?
Apples are very common in supermarkets. It’s great to have them.
Blooming time is over in the Northern hemisphere. Only a few autumn flowers and a couple of leftovers are still blooming. This image is from summer.
A baby’s hand. A couple of millions are around on our planet. When counting all hands in, we have approximately 16 billion human hands currently on this planet. Not counting the hands of the decreasing number of other primates in.
Fire, candles, matches. Very common, very ordinary. Candles are burning in houses, churches, temples. Fire is used for cooking and matches are nee ded to enlight both of them.
Streets are crossing all regions and countries. Not all of them are looking like this and even the vehicles moving on the streets are looking different. But, our whole civilization even the more primitive lives of our ancestors wasn’t possible without a primitive kind of street.
Stones are tiny parts of the earth. They are everywhere. We even use them the build our houses, streets, walls and so on.
Rain is a necessity for life. At least for a kind of life like we know it from hour planet Earth.
P.S. don’t forget to click on the images to enlarge them.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challange 168: “seen better days”
This week, Tina is our host for The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. Her theme for this week is “seen better days“.
This ruin once must have been a pretty house, home for a farmer’s family. For as long as I can remember, it was abandoned. In the meantime, instead, it is removed and a new house build instead.
When putting paint on metal walls, you have to prepare the grounding carefully, but also pay attention to the surface to keep the paint as protection.
In the middle of Santiago de Cuba, you can find many abandoned houses, hotels, and factories.
Once, this area was farmland. Small villages were around giving a home to farmers and their families, while the land around was giving them food and even enough to sell. But, when they found brown coal, the ground was turned downside up.
Once, liquid iron was running through these channels. Men in special heat-protecting suits were working here. A hard and dangerous working place.
This is a village, location on Kerkyra. It’s called the Venetian village because the village is said to be founded when the state Venetia was ruling certain parts of the Adria.
This is part of the former city wall of the Venetian village on Kerkyra.
This toilet is not in use anymore. Guess why?
One of the towns of Kerkyra is/was taken over by British tourists. I was quite surprised to see prices announced in GBP and pence instead of Euro and cent, as we are in Greece and not in the UK. And why were soo many hotels, supermarkets, and restaurants abandoned?
This is right beside the main road!
Also in Norway, you can find abandoned houses in nice places
Not only houses have seen better days. Guess, which adventures this ship might have seen.
You can’t imagine how many of these chappels I’ve seen in Scotland. Why don’t they have a roof? Is it intentional? The cemeteries around these chappels are definitely still in use.
A fisherman’s boat. What happened to the fisherman?
Only the skeleton is left of this boat.
A medieval (or older?) castle in Scotland
A public swimming bath, build in the epoch Jugenstil / art nouveau. Abandoned for many years.
This is, or was, the chemist’s laboratory inside a former coking plant.
And finally another find from a former steel plant. It’s converted into a publicly accessible park.
P.S. don’t forget to click on the images to enlarge them.
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Monochrome Monday 7-52
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Monochrome Monday 7-50
Last week, I was searching for some images taken in my town to complete a coffee-table book. While searching for a certain image, I stumbled upon a folder on an external disk, I’m using for storing undeveloped images that needed to get removed from my computer to reclaim some space. Over time, I have a couple of GB on that disk 😳
Among the oldest folders on that disk, I found 3 folders with images taken at the same location at three different points in time: mid-April, end of July, and end of October 2009 😳 (how young my kids were in those images).
The above image is from the October trip. In my opinion, a perfect fit for monochrome: an old railbus.
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Throwback Thursday: dry
Recently, I got the opportunity to visit an abandoned swimming pool. Built during the Art Nouveau epoche, but closed a few decades ago.
Now, it’s waiting for the prince, just like Sleeping Beauty.
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Monochrome Monday 6-27
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Wordless Wednesday: abandoned
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Monochrome Monday 6-26
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Beside the road to Kavos
On our way from Lefkimmi to Kavos, I was kind of surprised when I saw so many abandoned hotels, supermarkets and restaurants directly beside the main road. I know, there are some economic problems in Greece. These problems might als have an impact on entrepreneurs in the tourist industry. But, these buildings seemed to be abandoned for a quite long time. I don’t know, what happened here. This whole town is closed for a longer time, not only one the winter.
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Monochrome Madness 2-15
Currently, I’m developing my photos taken on Corfu. And, every now and then, I stumble over an image that might look great in monochrome. Just like the one above chosen for this weeks issue of Monochrome Madness by Leanne Cole.
First of all, I make all my usual adjustments to a raw file: white-balance, color-balance, balancing the horizon, lightening the darks and sharpening. Finally saving the edited file with all layers and export it to jpeg.
In the case I feel an image might look good in monochrome, I switch to monochrome mode in my raw development tool for a sneak preview to check, if it would look great in monochrome. Just in case, this preview looks great, I do another export. But, this time I choose tiff for my export image format. That’s because I want to preserve all information in the image. This tiff file is the source for my monochrome conversion.
Most of my monochrome images are created by using Tonality Pro by MacPhun. Sometimes I use it as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, but most times I simply use it as the standalone version. Even the standalone version is capable to work with layers, similar to Photoshop. And, so I develop several parts of a monochrome image differently.
Just in case, you didn’t have tried Tonality Pro, I’d encourage you to download the trial version and give it a try.
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Alone in the dark
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