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10 November 2006

It's Photo Friday! The theme is "Black and White," to be interpreted however you like. (IOW, it doesn't just refer to black and white photography, but it can if you want it to.)
post by: BoringPostcards at: 08:41 | 55 comments
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posted by BoringPostcards 10 November | 08:43
Someone was at Target!
posted by iconomy 10 November | 08:53
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I took this at a New Years Eve party last January with my old point & shoot & then tweaked it from into this b&w thing, which I have always really liked.
posted by mygothlaundry 10 November | 09:58
That looks like a scene out of an old 60s drive-in type movie, mgl... awesome.

And yep iconomy, I made my annual Xmas decoration run at Target this week... but didn't come home with an overpriced monochrome tree. ;)
posted by BoringPostcards 10 November | 10:03
I'm doing a lot of black and white these days. This is just the most recent one.

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posted by matildaben 10 November | 10:19
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I cheated. This used to be in color. This is the back side of the hill which has the Hollywood sign. This side of the hill faces Glendale instead of Hollywood. That is a TV antenna.

I love your first picture, BP! It looks almost like a coffin or Sleeping Beauty. It's very creepy!
posted by halonine 10 November | 10:24
My nephew decided he wanted to create costumes when he was visiting. Somehow they all ended up being black and white, so there you go.

Here's the Agro Nephew as a ninja, a phantom stalker, and a vampire bunny.

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posted by agropyron 10 November | 10:41
At the zoo!

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And in the elevator!

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posted by cortex 10 November | 11:13
cortex, the elevator shot ROCKS.

agro, your nephew makes a great phantom stalker! (That's meant as a compliment.)

halonine, yours is GORGEOUS! I'd love to see that blown up to large size. I bet it'd make a great print.

mats, I saw that girder pic of yours on Flickr and meant to comment on it- I love the pure geometry of it.
posted by BoringPostcards 10 November | 11:16
There's no such thing as black and white; just different shades of blue and brown and green and red and...grey.

This was one of the first photos I ever took with a digital camera:

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The view from my window on January 28th 2005:

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My sis, walking on (thick) ice:

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Trees, wintertime:

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posted by Daniel Charms 10 November | 11:22
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Fireworks at Caerphilly Castle.
posted by misteraitch 10 November | 11:23
How about sepia? There's no colour really. Honest.
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My best friend's old pooch...a wonderful Irish Wolfhound cross named Dexter
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and one more...I should do another of these soon:
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posted by richat 10 November | 11:36
Misteraitch...that's a beauty.
posted by richat 10 November | 11:38
Is that film or digital, matildaben?
posted by essexjan 10 November | 11:59
Some guy on a bench, taken with super cheap film from China called Shanghai:

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posted by iconomy 10 November | 12:05
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posted by pieisexactlythree 10 November | 12:57
Daniel Charms, that pic of your sis is stunning.

richat, those photo booth strips are always fun... love the faces on yours. :D

ico, how'd you get the scanlines on the pic with the books and magnifying glass?

pie, I love the texture on that pic of the wooden window... just amazing.

And speaking of amazing, WOW is that fireworks picture incredible, misteraitch!!
posted by BoringPostcards 10 November | 13:04
BP, it's a plug-in, but I can't remember the name of it - I'll look it up when I get home. It's similar to, but not, this.
posted by iconomy 10 November | 13:36
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/orangetimes/summerbacks.jpg
posted by chococat 10 November | 13:38
oops.
posted by chococat 10 November | 13:39
Thanks BP! That one was actually taken on 35mm and scanned years later.
posted by pieisexactlythree 10 November | 13:44
Sorry about that.

here we go.
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posted by chococat 10 November | 13:49
Mt. Hood, taken yesterday. I didn't take it, but my dad did, and I wanted to share.

Also taken this week: flooding at the Sandy River.
posted by Specklet 10 November | 13:54
This is great - I love these! Here's Mirella, a young friend of mine:

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posted by taz 10 November | 14:33
A friend's pug. His tongue is too long, and it always hangs a few inches out of his mouth.
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posted by amro 10 November | 14:39
Parsley flowers:
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Musicians' Union:
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Tai chi trees:
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And by the way, this thread is now officially broken in Firefox -- too many pictures. Any idea why this keeps happening?
posted by mudpuppie 10 November | 14:44
What's happening with it? I'm viewing in FF, but not 2.0.
posted by taz 10 November | 14:46
And by the way, this thread is now officially broken in Firefox -- too many pictures. Any idea why this keeps happening?
O RLY? Looks fine to me. (using Firefox 2.0)
posted by pieisexactlythree 10 November | 14:48
Haven't had the chance to upgrade to 2.0 yet, still in 1.0.6. I know someone else was having the same problem a week or two ago and posted about it, but I don't remember who.

Screenshot here.
posted by mudpuppie 10 November | 14:53
I'm using 1.0.7. and it's broken for me too. mudpuppie's photos freeze while downloading and then the whole thread gets all mumbly jumbly. So weird - MetaChat's the only site where it happens. I'll take a screenshot of what I see, although it changes every time I refresh. (I'm posting this using IE). I don't want to take away anymore from Photo Friday thing so I'll start a new thread.
posted by iconomy 10 November | 14:57
One of the first photos I took with my digital camera and still one of my favourites:

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It looks best embiggened.

The rest of the set is here.

I'm using 1.8 (if I'm reading it right) and it looks fine to me.
posted by deborah 10 November | 15:23
Gah. Mine are so lame compared to everyone else's.
posted by deborah 10 November | 15:24
Here's one that looks great as a print but looks like poo on the internets. The large size at flickr looks ok, so please click through there for the semi-full effect. (The print is 11x17, so this pixel thingie isn't so good)

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(Just for comparison, this photo was taken at the same time, just shows the different mood B&W can create)
posted by eekacat 10 November | 15:47
Oooh, oooh, I forgot about black & white created by the weather! Here are two:
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A nice Hitchcockian scene and
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Bunnystock! With a vague outline of Mike9322's back.
posted by mygothlaundry 10 November | 16:08
Also, deborah, I don't think your photos are lame at all - I love them!
posted by mygothlaundry 10 November | 16:09
Oh, and I did this one for Matildaben. It is of the super puppy of course, and I had posted a color version of it earlier.

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posted by eekacat 10 November | 16:14
Whoops, better late than never...
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Last winter.

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From high school -- one of my favorites.
posted by me3dia 10 November | 17:53
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My camera as seen by my Palm, converted to black & white.
posted by tommasz 10 November | 19:25
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posted by seanyboy 10 November | 19:31
These are all gorgeous! Daniel Charms, and pieisexactlythree, what great shots those are!
Eekacat, Silver looks good in any medium.
Deborah, you're right, it looks very good "embiggened".
Iconomy, I love the bookshelf photo.
Let's be real, I like all of these!
posted by redvixen 10 November | 19:31
I wish that I had some less blurry photo's for this theme.
Anyway... I quite like the weird tar stalagmites.

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posted by seanyboy 10 November | 19:39
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Tufted titmouse last winter.
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Taken in the Philadelphia Zoo.
posted by redvixen 10 November | 19:46
redvixen, that first tufted titmouse shot is AMAZING.
posted by mygothlaundry 10 November | 21:27
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posted by edgeways 10 November | 21:43
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posted by edgeways 10 November | 21:53
01/06
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01/06
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04/06
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I shot some B&W this week for photo Friday but never got round to uping it.
posted by arse_hat 11 November | 03:44
I see Photo Friday as good for the whole week... the topic is announced and the thread is started on Friday, but we can keep adding through the week.
posted by taz 11 November | 05:26
Well, I am going to add this...I just took it moments ago. It snowed last night, and the trees out back look awfully nice. Soph was sitting on the rad, looking out the window.
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posted by richat 11 November | 07:44
b&w wolfdog
posted by Wolfdog 11 November | 09:32
well I tried uploading some yesterday but mecha wasn't accepting my flickr links... let's see how this goes. I really do NOT understand mecha and how it parses the 'a href' tag...

some of you have seen some of these before. click the links if they dont come thru as inline images I guess...

one of my fave shots - a Really Fast Boy:
http://static.flickr.com/56/141806172_096c9e76fd_o.jpg

my favourite bike:
http://static.flickr.com/92/255221321_601cb45420_o.jpg

and my best buddy (the kid, not the moto cruiser...) :
http://static.flickr.com/85/275048200_fb85fb6ac7.jpg

posted by lonefrontranger 11 November | 16:49


eh... forget it, I guess.
posted by lonefrontranger 11 November | 16:50
lfr, all you need to do it take the url you provided (in this example, http://static.flickr.com/85/275048200_fb85fb6ac7.jpg) and click the "image" button below the text editing box...then paste the url into it. Then, you get something that looks like this:
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posted by richat 13 November | 22:53
The one above was film, this one is digital.

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Pie, let me know if those B&Ws are up on Flickr so I can favorite them.

Everyone who's posting from Flickr, please copy the full text from the "copy and paste this HTML into your webpage" box on the "All Sizes" page - it's part of Flickr's terms of service that you have to include the link when you post your Flickr images on other websites. Some of the link will make the Mecha code choke, so delete the entire "title" attribute from the <a> tag, and delete the "width", "height", and "alt" attributes from the <img> tag.
posted by matildaben 14 November | 10:50
Thank you Boring Postcards! I'll give you (and everyone) the full-size files: Photoshop, and JPEG!
posted by halonine 14 November | 12:06
Mats, yes, they're all on my flickr page.
posted by pieisexactlythree 14 November | 15:54
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