Johnson and Cook VIII
More of the peeling point on parking curbs at Johnson and Cook Streets. In order to not completely bore with the yellow curbs in this series I have rendered a number of them in black and white.
I like the yellow, but after a while the dominant colour gives the shots a sameness which over rides the textures and surroundings and other differences from one to the next. I hope to pull out some of those differences with black and white treatment. The top photo I prefer in black and white – it has something of a landscape about it that is lost with a dominant yellow curb across the top.
The lower two shots are from the same image, cropped and treated differently.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N 24/f2.8mm lens, ~f2.8, ISO640, top: 1/250th; others: 1/500th +/- 1.3 E.V.
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burnt embers 
Great textural abstractions, Ephem. I like that first one a lot!
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Thank you Karen! It was a good lesson for me that sometimes the colour detracts from the subject.
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Colour would detract from these, which look great as black and white semi-abstracts. The first is, IMHO, the best of the bunch
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Hi Andy – thanks for the comment. The more I look at this post, the more I wish I had just put up the first image, though they all have something to offer, they don’t necessarily go well together.
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These photos are stunning black and white images and give it a more abstract quality, even though they’re not abstract. I particularly like the first, which does look like an aerial view.
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Thank you Ken. The first is my favourite too. It was one of my favourites in colour as well, but it works much better like this. It all being rain soaked helps too, with the flat light.
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If I didn’t know it was a curb, the top shot could be an aerial view over a canyon somewhere in the Anerican Southwest. I like the ambiguity!
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Hi Melinda. I like that about it as well. For a while I was running a series with the aerial imagery tag which had that ambiguous feel. I will add this one to it.
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