portrait of a young Senegalese model wearing a halter top (not seen) in a straight haired wig and beaded headband, the irises painted a light purple in post

Maty 'Raven' (2013) -- Spanish Harlem, Manhattan, NYC

'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate' -- Carl Jung

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#Portraiture #ECK #JayceeCrawford

portrait of an American-Belgian Model wearing a faux fur shawl wrapped around her neck and torso

Ashlee 'September' (Tesla, 2015) -- Jersey City, NJ

'It is in unguarded moments that the features are the tell-tales of the mind' — James Lendall Basford

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#Portraiture #ECK #JayceeCrawford

A rough chopped birch tree lies partially grouped on the forest floor by a grove of trees and a pool of standing water, the ground is water covered in fallen leaves from last fall

'Forest Detritus, Spring' (2026) -- Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve, Brunswick, ME

'A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean' -- The Lorax (Dr. Suess)

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

An empty rocky beach at low tide with large boulders in the foreground, in the distance, a sleek, private boat pier that belongs to a large country estate

'Cold Rocky Landing' (2026) -- Town Landing, Falmouth, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #Stunday #BlueSkyArtShow #New ✨ #BWFri ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #TidesOutTuesday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Absolutely sensational Jaycee!! WOW 🤩!!

‘Crystal Cavern' (2014) -- Skogafoss Waterfall's Frozen Splash Zone, Southern Iceland

#Scape ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #New ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #BWFri ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

an image of two brave souls exploring Skogafoss' large splash zone, which is continuously blasted by icy mists that quickly freeze into long crystal shards along the lower canyon walls and foreground, making the entire area extremely beautiful but also extremely treacherous for walking. In the background a majestic curtain of water plummets into a white frothy mist

'Crystal Cavern' (2014) -- Skogafoss Waterfall's Frozen Splash Zone, Southern Iceland

#Scape ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #New ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #BWFri ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Fabulous capture Jaycee my friend!! 🤩👍🏼🩶🤍🖤

‘View Out the Back' (2023) -- Vessel Stern, HaLong Bay, Vietnam

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Opening ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #TidesOutTuesday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

the view from the upper deck, just before reaching the stern of the boat - complete with a potted plant - with several large karst islands in close proximity in the middle distance across the water

'View Out the Back' (2023) -- Vessel Stern, HaLong Bay, Vietnam

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Opening ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #TidesOutTuesday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a high contrast image of a tranquil and glassy pool of water in a boggy area reflecting the sky just after sunrise. a large stone sits in the middle of the water as if suspended between 2 dimensions, sky and land. On the horizon in the distance, a large and elongated rocky mountain rises into view

'The Outer Bounds' (2023) -- Soaking in the Extremely Remote & Beautifully Isolated Outskirts of Kokadjo in the Early Morning Hours, Moosehead Lake Vicinity, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a burst of intense light strikes the beach and fills the air as the sun finally rises through the somber rain clouds at daybreak, taken from the white wash zone on a nearly secluded beach surround on land by endless tropical forest

'Epiphanic Moments at Daybreak' (2023) -- Chân Mây Beach, Cảnh Dương, Central Vietnam

'If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water' — Loren Eiseley

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #TidesOutTuesday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a high contrast image of a weathered, granite, rocky slab rising like an obelisk over the surrounded dark land - topped by a dusting of overnight icy snow. the sky an icy white mist, shrouds the fjords and forest

'Valhalla Awaits' (2018) -- the National Mountain of Norway, Stetinden Rises Dramatically Above Land and Sea, Seen Here From the Middle of a 2 Lane Highway, Kjøpsvik, Norway

#MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a high contrast wintry image of Norway's national mountain with a thin coating of ice and against a sky of white icy mists, as it slopes down to the pristine fjord below and the tranquil water's edge

'Tranquility, From Sea to Sky' (Fjord, 2018) -- Norway's National Mountain, Stetind, Enacts a Prominent & Mesmerizing Visual Hold Upon Any Passing Visitor, Kjøpsvik, Norway

#MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Sensational my friend 🤩🖤🩶🤍👍🏼

Winter's Overture' (2024) -- The Tarn at Gardens of Acadia, Acadia National Park, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's... #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Background ✨ #Stunday ✨ #BlueSkyMonday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a view over the tarn in late winter, patches of snow grace the flanks of Huguenot (lower left) and Mt Dorr (lower right), above the tarn, against the cold sky, the evocative branches of two pine trees seemingly reach for each other

'Winter's Overture' (2024) -- The Tarn at Gardens of Acadia, Acadia National Park, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's... #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Background ✨ #Stunday ✨ #BlueSkyMonday ✨

#BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a view from the river bank viewing the cracking thawing ice, the barren trees and shrubs brown against the soft blue and white sky

'Winter Into Spring' (2026) -- Brunswick Bike Path, Brunswick, ME

'The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite' -- Wassily Kandinsky

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Background ✨ #Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #BlueSkyMonday ✨

#ECK #JayceeCrawford

a wide slow bend of the frozen androscoggin river appears to resemble an enormous ice skating canal that would stretch for miles, as seen from a bank of frozen shrubs in the foreground

'a Land of Ice & Sky' (2026) -- Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve, Brunswick, ME

'Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward" -- Leonardo da Vinci

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#BlackAndWhite #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a 46 foot tall monolith composed of 121 sculpted human bodies of all ages and sexes rises alarmingly into the sky. the crowded, grappling bodies reminds me of the Buddhist term 'samsara' or the the pain and suffering of the living, each figure eternally trapped yet attempting to escape to freedom by climbing over the others to reach the top... it's both alarming in nature and philosophy and yet a wondrous sight to behold and ponder

'Apex' (2019) -- If You Haven't Been to the Divinely Surreal, Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, You Are Missing Out, Frogner Park, Oslo, Norway

#UrbanGaze ✨ #HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #PalacesAndGardens ✨ #ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Landscape #BlackAndWhite
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

profile portrait of an indian american model in a make-shift japanese kimono and white kabuki face powder, her black wavy hair tied loosely above her head

Roo Zine 'Brooklyn' (2018) -- Harlem, Manhattan, NYC

'Kabuki is the art of striking poses, not for vanity, but to carve emotion into the memory of the crowd' -- Ichikawa Danjuro Actors

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Portraiture #BlackAndWhite
#ECK #JayceeCrawford

portrait of young german-american man wearing military issue camouflage black face paint and thermals

Daniel 'Schwarzkopf' (2013) -- South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC

'War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength' — George Orwell (1984)

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #ClassicMono ✨

#Photography #Portraiture #BlackAndWhite
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

An out of use trestle bridge that stretches over the Androscoggin River collects a light layer of snow turning the wooden beams white and helpfully increasing the structural contrast

'V is for Vanishing Point' (2026) -- Black Bridge Trestle, Brunswick, ME

'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars' -- Les Brown

#Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #Scape ✨

#Architecture #BlackAndWhite
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

view from the street level plaza below looking up at the enclosed walkway between the 2 towers and the impressive exterior geometries

'Up From Below' (2022) -- Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

'A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur' — Jean Genet

#Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #Scape ✨

#Architecture #BlackAndWhite
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Perfection Jaycee, my goodness 🤩🤍🖤🩶👍🏼

‘Mirrored Parabola' (2022) -- Bubble Pond, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

Masterful photography Jaycee my friend 🤩🖤🤍🩶👌🏼

Stone in Focus' (Slipstream, 2021) -- Bubble Pond Shoreline, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

the rocky summit in the foreground, the South Bubble in the middleground, Penobscot Mountain in the distance above the sliver of Jordan Pond

'View From the Summit' (2022) -- Mount Pemetic Summit, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a small section of bubble pond's shallow shoreline with rocks and reeds on a still, overcast morning, the water was a perfect mirror reflecting Cadillac Mountain (left slope) and Mt. Pemetic (right slope) uniting in a natural parabola just above the water's edge

'Mirrored Parabola' (2022) -- Bubble Pond, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

a sunlit rock sits in the shallows just at the boundary of the bright reflected, overcast sky and the dark, shadowed reflection of the forested hill on the opposite bank creating a smooth and perfect mirror

'Stone in Focus' (Slipstream, 2021) -- Bubble Pond Shoreline, Acadia National Park, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Stone ✨ #Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape #ClassicMono
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

the setting sun, haloed by thin white clouds reflecting the light begins its final approach to the horizon... is reflected in the surface of the river... as seen through the dark shoreline of the forest

'Dreams of a Midnight Sun' (2026) -- Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve, Brunswick, ME

'Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #BWFri ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

The disc of the sun hovers just above the horizon behind a grove of trees in the distance... The soft evening light illuminates the sky and river, as seen through the dark manicured edge of the tree line

'Tranquil Evening' (2026) -- Winter Fades Slowly Into Spring, the Ice Melts, Flowers Begin to Bloom... The River Bloats With Mud & Detritus, Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve, Brunswick, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #ClassicMono ✨ #BWFri ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ECK #JayceeCrawford

at the river's edge, cracked and slowly drifting swaths of ice cling to the partially thawed shoreline of rocks and reeds, the barren trees tipped with growing buds reach skyward... The sky gray but imbued with light and soft fluffy clouds

'Winter Gives Way...' (2026) -- Brunswick Bike Path, Brunswick, ME

'If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you' -- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#ECK #JayceeCrawford

a late winter pool of icy water lies silently, littered with the textures of brown shriveled leaves of the previous fall. its surface a perfect mirror reflecting the trees and the light in the sky

'Into the Upside-Down' (2026) -- Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve, Brunswick, ME

'Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength' — Sigmund Freud

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #Stunday ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #BWFri ✨

#Photography #Landscape #Monochrome
#ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford