Thank you to Black Box Gallery (blackboxgallery.com) in Portland, Oregon, for including my photo in its Vision: Color Photography online annex exhibition.
The show opens today and runs through April 25, 2026.
#rurex #ruralexploration #ruralgaze #graffiti #abandoned #bando #mojavedesert
A black and white photo of a section of a large reservoir showing a fisherman on the right, a boater in the center and a hydropower dam and forest in the background.
This 800 acre #reservoir serves many purposes including #boating, #fishing and #HydroPower, all of which are shown here.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C
#Photography #Nature #Landscape #Scape #Art #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BnW #EastCoastKin #Rural #RuralGaze #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P493
“How swiftly move the fluffy clouds
As I look up in the sky
So many lovely shapes I see
As the clouds go drifting by”
-Katie Lazette
Out walking with my dog. Loving the sky this morning
Lee County, Kentucky
#stunday #dogsofbluesky #huskiesofbluesky #ruralgaze #ECK #EastCoastKin #imageandverse
B&W photo showing side-by-side train tracks receding through a forest into the distance as if coming together,
More twins - Richmond, Virginia
#B&Wphotography #ruralgaze
A color photo of a decaying barn.
Hard hat required beyond this point.
📷 Pentax K1000
🔘 Pentax M 28mm f/2.0
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
#Photography #Art #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #35mm #Architecture #Texture #Rural #RuralGaze #Barn #StreetPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Pentax #Kodak #P000
This black and white photograph has a timeless, melancholic beauty to it — the weathered wooden barn with its horizontal slat siding, the old windmill silhouetted against the overcast sky, the open barn door hinting at emptiness within. Lets the texture do the talking — the rough shingles, the worn wood grain, the scrubby grass. There’s a quiet dignity to old working structures like this one.
An abandoned brick barn stands hollow against a pale winter sky, its gambrel roof patched with weathered wood, windows long since empty. Power lines slice across the frame, connecting a past that’s slowly coming apart. A bare tree and a collapsing outbuilding tell the same story in the background — a farmstead fading quietly back into the plains. #SilentSunday
Still Standing (rural Clay County, MAR 2026)
Ricoh GR IV Monochrome
Compare with photo by @geovanmeter.bsky.social
#SilentSunday #ClassicMono #photography #B&W #bnwphotography #rural #ruralgaze #ricoh #RicohGR
A collapsed farmhouse recedes into the landscape it once commanded — roof caved inward, rafters splayed like broken ribs, a lone brick chimney standing as the last dignified remnant of a domestic life long since departed. Bare trees press in from behind, reclaiming the silence.
The Slow Surrender
(Rural Palo Alto County, MAR 2024) Featured as the cover of “Exploring the Abandoned Magazine” Vol 1 Issue 6
📷 Nikon Zf B&W mode
🔘 Nikon 24-70mm f/2.4
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput #ruralgaze
#blackandwhitephotography #b&w #ClassicMono #photography #Nikon #NikonZf
Picture of a stormy sunset over top of graveyard
Taken on a back road as the sun set and a storm was rolling in. I didnt notice the grave stone silhouettes until after.
Sept 2018
#photography #weather #sunset #Graves #storm #ruralgaze #amateur
A color photo of the profile of a red barn with the door open and the green of summer nature in the background.
Someone left the barn door open again.
📷 Pentax K1000
🔘 Pentax M 135mm f/3.5
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
#Photography #Art #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #35mm #Architecture #Texture #Rural #RuralGaze #Barn #Nature #StreetPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Pentax #Kodak #P470
A black and white photo of a rustic old building with no windows and a modern white door on the left side. There are stacks of wood chips in the foreground.
Building / Door... One of these things is not like the other.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 18-135mm APS-C
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #Architecture #Architectural #Rural #RuralGaze #Rurex #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P469
A wet muddy road leading into some hills. There's a little canal on the left.
Lonely Road.
#photography #scape #WestCoastKin #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #monochrome #rural #ruralgaze #m43
While out walking with my dog I was amazed to see this beautiful red barn reflected in the still water of the pond. It made a beautiful contrast with the fresh snow
The last snow
Lee County, Kentucky
#stunday #artyear #eastcoastkin #snow #ruralgaze
A black and white photo of a very rustic and boarded up cabin in the woods.
A rustic cabin tucked away in the woods.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 18-135mm APS-C
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #ForestFriday #Nature #Architecture #Architectural #Rural #RuralGaze #Rurex #Abandoned #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P461
Scrolling through BlueSky this morning, I’ve seen some really incredible black and white photography. This is my humble offering
Herman’s Brew Coffee,
Beattyville, Kentucky
#mono #monochrome #coloraday #ruralgaze #eastcoastkin #photography #scape #BWFri #bnw
“Will”
Delaware USA
2005
“Photographs capture a split second in time that would otherwise be lost forever. It’s magic, really.”
📷 leitzinger.photography
#AlphabetChallenge #HumansofBlueSky
#WeekHforHs #hat #RuralGaze #eastcoastkin #photography #photographersofbluesky #portrait #portraiture
Whenever I come across a place like this, I often pause to think about the people who lived here ... who they were, their challenges, their joys, their tears. I try to think about the generations of people who passed through this door and who made this into a home. I try to think about what became of them. I try to listen for their voices, but all I hear is the wind. The photo depicts an abandoned homestead in eastern Colorado. The image is black and white and rendered into a sepia tone. The sky is mostly covered in patchy clouds. The two-story house has a partially caved-in roof. All of the windows have been removed. The image perspective is from low to the ground.
An abandoned homestead in eastern Colorado for #Sunday #Stunday.
#Photography #Photograph #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #Rural #RuralGaze #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned #Colorado #Nikon #backroads #historical #homestead #landscape
A black and white photo of an small abandoned house of cinder blocks. Some of the roof is missing and the rest is in poor shape.
Ready to move in. Roof may need minor attention at some point.
📷 Pentax K-50
🔘 Pentax 18-135mm APS-C
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #Architecture #Architectural #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #Rural #RuralGaze #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P456
A black and white photo of a small house in the woods with vines growing all over it.
Not sure if someone still lives here so I didn't get too close.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 18-135mm
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #Architecture #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #Rural #RuralGaze #ForestFriday #Woods #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P453
In this black and white photograph, three boys rest on a wooden dock by a canal before swimming again in a canal. A small metal bridge towers over the boys. This is a timeless image of small town life during the 1970’s. “Photographs capture a split second in time that would otherwise be lost forever. It’s magic, really.”
Delaware City, Delaware USA
1978
My entry for #ColorADay #BWFri Art Challenge
More photos leitzinger.photography
#RuralGaze #smArtist #monochrome #SmallTown #photographersofbluesky #blancoynegro #ClassicMono #eastcoastkin #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #HumansOfBlueSky #fotografía
Misty morning walk with Loki
Lee County, KY
#scape #farmscape #ruralgaze #dogsofbluesky #huskiesofbluesky
#vanlife #EastCoastKin
A black and white photo of an outdoor shed with a tin roof. There is a full load of stuff underneath the roof and a wooden pallet on one end of the roof to keep it in place during strong winds.
A place to store your stuff and things, plus a pallet to keep the roof from flying off.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 18-135mm
#photography #Art #Architecture #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #Rural #RuralGaze #Rurex #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #StreetPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P449
A color photo of a large red barn sitting in a field next to a pond with a forest on to opposite bank.
A beautiful red barn by the pond. I can almost smell the hay in the loft.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 18-135mm
#photography #Art #Architecture #Rural #RuralGaze #Rurex #Nature #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #StreetPhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BlueSkyPhotography #ForestFriday #Pentax #P447
A black and white photo of the side of a rural abandoned house with stacks of wooden lumber the size of trim surrounding the side and back.
An abandoned house with stacks of wooden trim outside.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C
#Photography #StreetPhotography #Art #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #BnW #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned #Architecture #Architectural #RuralGaze #Rural #Rurex #WendowsOnWednesday #Pentax #P445
A color photo of a 'T' shaped pier with a wooden deck and railings jutting out into a lake. The other side of the lake is thickly forested.
From this pier there's a nice view of the thick forest on the other side of the lake.
📷 Pentax K-50
🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C
#photography #streetphotography #art #nature #scape #landscape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #BlueSkyPhotography #lake #rural #ruralgaze #rurex #Pentax #P413
Sony a6400, Sony 70-350mm lens, 1/2000s, ISO-400, 95mm. Spotted it while passing by and stopped to take the pic.
The sleigh was in the shop, so Santa decided to take the tractor. It wasn't nearly so efficient or magical. #RuralGaze #landscape #Santa #Christmas #Tractor
A black and white photo of an old weathered wooden barn with a tin roof.
There was a dog barking menacingly in back of me while I took this photo. I can't believe I actually got out of the car.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C
#photography #streetphotography #art #abandoned #monochrome #blackandwhite #BnW #EastCoastKin #architecture #ruralgaze #Pentax #P388
A weathered fence post and a tangle of wild grasses stand in silhouette against a sky washed pale by the rising sun. The horizon glows with that quiet, early-day haze when the world hasn’t quite decided on its colors yet. Dew clings to the blades, catching the low light, while the fields stretch out in gentle gradients toward the soft, glowing orb lifting itself into the day. It’s a moment caught between stillness and becoming—where the sky, tender and luminous, feels close enough to touch.
Sky Worn Soft by Morning : Along the gravel road (Palo Alto County, July 2024)
📷 Fujifilm X-T50 Velvia
🔘 XF 16-50mm F2.8-4.8 R LM WR
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday December 6, 2025
The theme is #Sky
#fujifilm #xt50 #Velvia #Iowa #photography #ruralgaze
A black and white photo of an abandoned wooden structure which has partially collapsed on the left causing a severe tilt in that direction.
Charming little fixer-upper. May require a fresh coat of paint in the future.
📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C
#photography #streetphotography #art #abandoned #monochrome #blackandwhite #B&W #BnW #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #architecture #ruralgaze #rurex #rural #Pentax #P370
