Lavonardo

Noted last week that Mustavalkomaanantai is not dead, far from it. Couldn’t find a proper image for the “deserted house”-challenge last week, but a classic is a far easier subject.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #37: Classic.

Open land in the Australian Outback, near Kata Tjuta.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #16: Uninhabited.

Reflections off the wall of an office building next to the hotel in Brussels.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #15: Night.

Cast by a glass, with multiple lightsources in various directions.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #14: Shadows.

Great Cthulhu.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #13: Macro.

Sunshine in black & white.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #11: Sunshine.

For me there’s few things more finnish than the open fields. A lopsided weather-eaten barn in the distance would fill out the picture – but those are rare, these days.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #10: Home, Faith and Country.

Top of a ventilation shaft on Acropolis Hill in Athens.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #9: Curves/bends.

The last rays of the sun are indeed rays.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #7: Weather.

This week’s Mustaa ja Valkoista challenge is to show an original image, and the resulting black&white conversion.

I chose a collection of flotsam on the pacific coast – a crab has lost a claw, which has got tangled up in some string (or even a net).

Mustaa ja Valkoista #6: Original and conversion.

A selfmade snow lantern is an appropriate image to use on the wintriest winter in a long while.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #5: Twelfth Night / The End.

A fruitbat-laden tree in Brisbane, just before dusk. Naturally almost black and white.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #4: Silhouette.

Walking to Times Square. Or back to the hotel from Times Square. Jetlagged to the gills, nonetheless.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #3: … coming to town

A duck goes for a cold swim off the brink of ice.

Mustaa ja Valkoista #2: Winter.

For the premier participation in the newly minted Finnish black & white photography meme I’ll recycle an image previously used: two old elephants wandering in their enclosure in the

Mustaa ja Valkoista #1: Old.