#history #roma #sculpture #capitolmuseum #black&white #monoclassic #monochrome.
Museo Capitolini. Roma. Pictures 2003.

#history #roma #sculpture #bronze #wolf #capitolmusuem #black&white #monoclassic #monochrome.
The Capitoline wolf
Long considered 5th century BC, it is now thought, based on modern studies that it is from medieval period (1021-1153). Twins around AD 1471, Museo Capitolini. Roma.

#architecture #Italy #Roma #Capitol #ambassadorpalace # #B&W #blackandwhite #monoclassic
Roma. Capitol. Ambassador palace frontage. Michel Ange stairs. Ancient statues. Nile, Tiber, Minerva (currently Roma symbol)

#architecture #roma #saintangecastle #B&W #blackandwhite #monoclassic
Roma. A glance to Saint angel castle. Part1. Pictures 2003

A storm descending
All calm, quiet, and ready
White is approaching

#stunday #monoclassic #imageandverse #landscape #photography #haiku

I sweat my way up the stairs enroute to the Salt Lake City, the sun striking where it may and witness...half the light. #architecture #black&white #monoclassic #fujifilm #fujiXT5 #streetphotography #contract #saltlakecity #slclibrary #light#shadows #contrast

Photo: A ship's bell mounted in front of some ship's machinery and engraved with the ship's name: "Sea Cloud," Eastern Atlantic, off the coast of Spain April 2023 According to the Naval History and Heritage Command website: "Used for signaling, keeping time, and sounding alarms, bells are an important part of a ship's routine and readiness. Before the advent of the chronometer, time at sea was measured by the trickle of sand through a half-hour glass. One of the ship's boys had the duty of watching the glass and turning it when the sand had run out. When he turned the glass, he struck the bell as a signal that he had performed this vital function." https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/customs-and-traditions0/the-ship-s-bell.html OM-1: ƒ/5.6, 1/1250, 150mm, ISO400

Ship's Bell
"maritime law requires all ships to carry an efficient bell"
This one is aboard the Barque Sea Cloud,
Eastern #Atlantic, off the coast of #Spain
April 2023
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCommunication
#sailing #ship
And I can't remember if it's #MonoClassic or #ClassicMono

Photo: A rider on horseback chases down a cow in a competitive cattle sorting event at the D Bar V Arena in Drexel, Missouri in January 2013. All three are moving toward the camera. The cow, which is the closest to us of the three, is speckled and wears a Number 6 bib. It should be sorted before the cow with a 7 and not before the one with a 5. The horse, immediately behind the cow, has its head turned sharply to the left and is eyeballing the cow with its wide open rightside eye. The rider is leaning forward slightly in the saddle and is fully focussed on the cow. The riders aren't told which cow to start with until the event starts. The riders have 60 seconds to move 10 cattle from one pen into another, without letting an 11th (unnumbered) cow into that pen, in sequence starting with whichever cow is wearing the bib with the number that is called out as the event begins. D5100: ƒ/5.6, 1/125, 200mm, ISO6400

Sorting: Rider, Horse & Cow
D Bar V Arena, #Drexel, #Missouri
January 2013
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZoology
#ClassicMono #MonoClassic #monochrome
#Horse #Cattle & #HumansOfBluesky
Atten: @wallysworld.bsky.social @alianne27.bsky.social

Photo: monochrome the head and neck of a white horse who's been hanging out in the pasture, from his right eye down into his muddy mane. He's standing next to a light ginger horse, but only a bit of her shoulder is showing. His eye is black, at least in this photo. His eye lash is white, was white always. This is Cain. He was my wife's horse, a magnificent beast who took extremely good care of her on their many excellent adventures, always always always bringing her home safely. Archie, Missouri September 2012 D5100: ƒ/9, 1/320, 55mm, ISO400

Cain
#Archie, #Missouri
September 2012
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZoology
#ClassicMono #MonoClassic #Horse

Photo: Monochrome. A mostly white, entirely wet, retriever (in profile) is in the midst of lunging herself across the shallows of a gravel beach (left to right), hind legs still planted but front legs mid-air. She may be wet, but she's happy.

Aux Barricades!
#ShawneeMissionPark ( #DogBeach ), #Kansas
October 2022
#WetDogWednesday #MonoClassic #UglyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #ChonkAlert

Cellphone Photo: A small, silky white dog, wearing oversized (for him) sunglasses that reflect the ceiling light (in the center) and the windows (at their top edge) (or maybe (?) it's the other way 'round) lays on a hardwood floor, looking expectantly at the camera (not shown), which is in a phone (not shown), held by a guy (not shown) who is supposed to be working but is also supposed to be watching the dog, who has been left in the house by his wife (not shown), who is at work (outside the home (not shown)) but but told her sister (not shown) the dog could stay with her husband (the above-mentioned guy) while her sister (still not shown) was off doing something else. Both the dog and the guy are wondering what they can get up to while they are unsupervised, so, if you could see the guy, he would probably have the same expression as the dog. But neither the dog nor the guy came up with anything good, other than making this picture. Still, all in all, a pretty good day. Home Office Kansas City, Missouri July 2012 HTC Sensation 4G: 4.31mm, ISO396

Teddy, Chillin'
Home Office
#KansasCity, #Missouri
July 2012
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWacky
#MonoClassic #PhonePhotography
#DogsOfBlueSky #UglyDogs

Photo: Monochrome. Moody light and shadow wrap around a beautiful model, the light and shadow that is typically reserved for a woman leaning against the sill of a window in an upstairs Parisian studio. Maybe a little cleavage or side boob. She might be posing for a perfume ad. As it happens, however, this model is a golden retriever, and this studio, a mud puddle … on a cinder track, behind an abandoned high school. So, sorry. No cleavage. No side boob. No perfume. But, she is no less lovely for that. And the light, the shadow, no less moody. Her name is Lucy. She is a patient and excellent model.

The existence of "ThickTrunk" & "Rockin'" Tuesdays implies a
#WetDogWednesday. These are the rules of Photographic Alliteration. I don't write them. I just make them up.
Thus:
Lucy in a Puddle
#KansasCity, #Missouri
May 2025
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #MonoClassic #UglyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #ChonkAlert

Photo: Monochrome. The iconic island of Gibraltar at some distance. In the foreground to our right, two taut lines (ropes) of a tall ship's vertical running rigging. Sea Cloud Straits of Gibraltar #Mediterranean April 2023

Rock of Gibraltar
as seen from the deck of the barque
#SeaCloud
Straits of Gibraltar
#Mediterranean
April 2023
#PhotographersOfBlueSky #RockinTuesday #MonoClassic

Main walkway through Mont Saint-Michel up to the abbey

Old wooden door set in a turret

Detail of an old door in which the wrought iron door knocker is a hand holding a ball

Mont Saint-Michel: my first visit and what a wonderful place

#MonoClassic
#photography
#blackandwhite
#travel
#France

I love black & white editing, love this one of Beaumaris Pier taken a while back now

#blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #monoclassic #landscapephotography #seascape #beaumaris #thephotohour #stormhour #photography

Photo: A modest waterfall steps daintily down a hillside over dark stair-like stones covered in moss between ferns, and leafy trees, beside a walkway leading to the entrance of … Alhambra, Granada, Spain April 2023 OM-1: ƒ/3.5, 1/100, 32mm, ISO400 (desaturated (by average) after the fact)

Red Castle Water Fall
The fountains and pools of a 13th Century architectural wonder and UNESCO World Heritage Site are fed by the springs around it.
#Alhambra, #Granada, #Spain
April 2023
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKinetic
#Travel #FallScape #MonoClassic
(nice link in next skeet)

It rained everyday that month, typical for Germany. I took the backroad to work from Rehweiler via Obermohr. And as I came around the bend my momentum was arrested as I stopped to captured Heaven's Gate #Landscape #fog #Skundy #mystic #black&white #moody #Germany #monoclassic #monotone #iconic #mist

A lo lejos se ve la otra orilla.

#monoclassic #monochrome #blackandwhite #b&w #longexposure #horizon #minimalist #powershot #photography #archiquecture

Huntsville Utah as the light arrived...on a winter's morning in the mountains. #sunrise #landscape #snow #winter #farm #luminosity #frozen #monoclassic #black&white #monochrome #leica #mountains

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. C'est peut-être juste moi qui n'ai pas changé
Heidelberg, Germany, 1970. Oregon, 2025.
#photography #streetphotography #monoclassic #blackandwhite #EastCoastKin

Two scenes from a motorcycle rally race in Netherland. 1970.
#photography #streetphotography #motorcycle #race #monoclassic #blackandwhite #netherland #EastCoastKin

Exercices de dessin / drawing exercises
#sketchbook #drawing #etude #dessin #monoclassic #ink #encre

Black and white photo of a small castle perched on a hill with a body of water and dark clouds underneath

Perched

My #PhotoOftheDay
#Telling through #photography
#blackandwhitephotography
#monoclassic

Photo: Lucy (Loose, for short), a white dog with longish hair (an English Cream Golden Retriever, to be exact), searches for adventure (and whatever comes her way) standing on dead branches, moss and leaves looking into trees of all sizes, mostly conifers. Yeah man, she's gonna make it happen, like a true nature's child, she was born to be wild, etc. etc. etc. North Woods, near Canada October 2021 D5600: ƒ/5, 1/100, 27mm, ISO400

Loose in the Woods
... is fascinated by just how many trees there are in a forest, not to mention: leaves, branches, small animals, … well, I could go on forever, as could she.
#NorthWoods, near #Canada
October 2021
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#woods #photography
#UglyDogs #DogPictures

Photo: Travelers emerge from The Siq, a very narrow gorge that is pretty much the only entrance to an ancient city built in the 4th Century by the Nabateans, nomadic Arabs who controlled the caravan routes of the Middle East. Per Wikipedia: "Unlike slot canyons such as Antelope Canyon in the American Southwest, which are directly shaped by water, the Siq is a natural geological fault split apart by tectonic forces; only later was it worn smooth by water." Petra, Jordan April 2012 D5100: ƒ/4.2, 1/200, 26mm, ISO125

The World is Large (& we are small)
Travelers emerge from The Siq (very narrow gorge) in …
#Petra, #Jordan
April 2012
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#travel #photography

Photo: A wide stone stairway leads upward towards some apartments from a street that was already rising, right to left. On a second level, the stairs are flanked by stone retaining walls. The carved stones of the steps are worn by usage and weather into mottled shades, darker near the center. Sunset is approaching and two old fashioned street lamps on the right side of the stairs have lighted. On the left, near the top, an iron structure supporting cables stands. At the top of the stairs, disappearing into the street and buildings above, a man walks away from the stairs in a dark jacket and wide-brimmed hat. Tzfat, Israel April 2012 D5100: ƒ/9, 1/320, 18mm, ISO125

Stone Stairs
… in a mountain village built mostly of stairs.
Tzfat, Israel
April 2012
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#travel #photography

Photo: A stone bridge across a creek in Maryland in early November, where the bloodiest battle in American history was fought on 17 September 1862. The narrow Union victory that day provided Lincoln the political capital to announce his Emancipation Proclamation. Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland November 2024 OM-1: ƒ/9, 1/640, 13mm, ISO400

Burnside Bridge
About 500 Union soldiers were killed or wounded taking this bridge on 17 September 1862 as part of a battle in which there were 22,720 casualties.
#Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
November 2024
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#travel #photography #bridge

Photo: Tony wanted two things on this trip to Spain: licorice ice cream and to see AlHambra. As soon as he set foot ashore, he went looking for the ice cream. Walked the center city. He really wanted a cup (without chocolate), but he settled for this ice cream bar. Tony wears a straw fedora and classic sunglasses. He could use a shave maybe. He's down to his last three or four bites of ice cream bar. Behind him is a building with a very tall first floor and barred windows, a bank maybe. Also behind him in soft focus a middle aged woman pushes an elderly man in a wheelchair who is clutching a white cane. And behind them, a young street vendor squats on the curb beside his wares. Cádiz, Spain April 2023 OM-1: ƒ/6.3, 1/400, 40mm, ISO200 (desaturated after the fact)

Licorice Ice Cream Bar
What Tony really wanted was Licorice Ice Cream in a cup, but he settled for this ice cream bar.
#Cádiz, #Spain
April 2023
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#travel #portraiture #photography

Photo: A white-haired man wearing a wry expression and holding a chainsaw and looking to one side, gestures with an open hand towards the camera, as if to ask "Who's This Mook?" He appears to be bemused. He's wearing a zipped up winter fleece sweatshirt and sweatpants. Other people have just walked past him on his right. Behind him are the limestone walls of a very old fortified city on an island in the Mediterranean. Sartène, Corsica May 2023 OM-1: ƒ/3.5, 1/125, 40mm, ISO400 (desaturated after the fact)

Who's This Mook?
… asks the local guy holding a chainsaw of a bystander (not shown) while some dummy thinks that now, while he's holding a chainsaw, is a good time to be taking his picture.
Sartène, Corsica #France
May 2023
#BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome
#MonoClassic
#travel #photography

Photo: Dominating the frame is the Arch of Hadrian, built in the ancient city of Jerash (Gerasa, at the time) over the winter of 129-130 CE to celebrate the anticipated visit of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Of equal interest, however, is a seemingly dejected man, dressed casually in jeans and tennies and a collared shirt, walking away from the camera and towards the arch, on his way out of the archaeological park, head down, one hand in a hip pocket, the other carrying a bouquet, blossoms downward. Also shown, tourists almost at the arch, a couple of tourist police under the arch, a water trailer in the right foreground that looks as if it may have been abandoned by T.E. Lawrence, and, of course, the arch, which looks very Romanish but also shows some Nabatean influence. Arch of Hadrian Archaeological Site of Jerash, Jordan April 2012 NIKON D5100: ƒ/9, 1/320, 22mm, ISO125

Bouquet of Disappointment
"So," as my wife often says, "here's the story I made up:"
She did not like the flowers.
Arch of Hadrian
Archaeological Site of Jerash (Jordan)
April 2012
#MonoClassic #photography
#travel #travelphoto #travelphotography