“The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed.”
-Garry Winogrand
#Scotland #Edinburgh #street #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #silhouettes

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau
#Scotland #Hightlands #GlenCoe #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitelandscape #simple #photography

“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.” – Alan Moore
#Scotland #GlenCoe #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #expressivephotography #

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
-Diane Arbus
#Scotland #IsleofSkye #Portree #monochrome #travel #blackandwhite #expressivephotography #blackandwhitephotography #street

“When people look at my pictures, I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” – Robert Frank
#Scotland #Edinburgh #street #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitestreet #weather #atmosphere

“I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.” – Mary Ellen Mark #Scotland #minimal #landscapephography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #nature #expressive

“Photography, even though some people refer to it as a mechanical process, forces you to reach out to the world in front of you.” – Olivia Parker
#Scotland #Pitlochry #autumn #fall #fallcolor #nature #trees #ephemeral #VisualHaiku #expressivelandscape #landscapephotography #

“My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.” – Jerry Uelsmann
#Northwoods #Wisconsin #forests #autumn #fallcolor #nature #trees #expressivephotography #landscapephotography #photography

“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” – Charles Eames
#Wisconsin #northwoods #WisconsinRiver #autumn #fall #fallcolor #water #landscapephotogrpahy #councilgroundsstatepark

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.” – John F. Kennedy #Wisconsin #Northwoods #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitelandscape #landscapephotography #photography #foggy #atmosphere #mooody #mono #nature

“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.“ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
#CaddoLake #texas #swamp #cypress #autumn #monochrome #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitelandscape #expressive #moody #expressivephotography #nature

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt
#Wisconsin #Northwoods #blackandwhitelandscape #foggy #atmosphere #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #VilasCounty #

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want". Andy Warhol
#Wisconsin #highkey #northwoods #moody #atmosphere #foggy #nature #trees

“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
#Venice #Italy #water #atmosphere #moody #foggy #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhite_photography #expressivephotography

“Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson
#Venice #Italy #water #blackandwhitephotography #foggy #moody #monochrome #atmosphere #streetphotography #et

We need Pete so badly.

“Black and white finds a new strength in unlikely subjects, taking away the distractions of colour and emphasizing form, texture and shape.” – David Prakel
#Canada #Lunenburg #coast #water #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #Sony #sea

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” -Leo Tolstoy
#Canada #NovaScotia #minimalistphotography #blackandwhite #foggy #atmosphere #water #monochrome #simple

“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black.” – Henri Matisse
#Canada #NewBrunswick #StJohn #blackandwhite #street #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography

“What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like reading the book than seeing the movie.” – Jennifer Price
#Canada #NovaScotia #Lunenburg #boats #fog #atmosphere #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #blackandwhitelandscape #water #moody

“I love black and white. It’s abstract and interpretive.” – Herb Ritts
#Canada #NovaScotia #blackandwhite #monochrome #textures #streets #architecture

Thanks Eddie

“Black and white isn’t just an aesthetic choice. It’s an ongoing dialogue between the past and present.” – Anonymous
#Canada #NovaScotia #monochrome #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #water #nature #Atlantic #expressivephotography

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

“Black and white photography allows us to see with a different eye, to visit a different world.” – John Daido Loori
#Canada #maritime #NovaScotia #Lunenburg
#monochrome #simple #boats #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #harbor #water

“Allow yourself to lose your way.” – Jay Maisel
#Madison #Wisconsin #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #nature #Leica #mulberry #Olbrich #inversion

“A photograph is the pause button on life.”
-Ty Holland
#Wisconsin #Madison #StateStreet #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #Leica #street #streets #streetphotograpy

“The camera’s only job is to get out of the way because if it doesn’t, you’re going to be fighting with it all day long.” – David Alan Harvey
#Chicago #rain #weather #atmosphere #blackandwhite #monochrome #street #streetphotography

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” – Tony Robbins
#Wisconsin #Northwoods #blackandwhite #photography #expressivephotography #monochrome #reflections #nature