B&W Photography Revival 3 - “Black and white can transform a scene into something magical.”

Monochrome Photography

B&W Photography Revival 3 

Dr Abe V Rotor

“Black and white can transform a scene into something magical.”

 – Rob Sheppard

Hull and Outrigger

UST Biological Station

Palauig, Zambales

Someone invented your hull. 

Another your outrigger

Which comes one-sided

Or in winglike pair.

Your hull slices the water

While your arm rides on the crest.

In duo you conquer 

The river and the sea,

Linking the islands in chain 

Since the time of the Odyssey.

“Black and white does more to evoke an emotion 

and freeze a moment in time.” – Kyle Anstey

Two Sisters, Two Mothers
Sister Angelina Rojas and Mrs Cecilia Rojas Rotor

Each found the true meaning of life;

One in contemplation, the other in strife;

One keeps the Faith converting people,

The other keeps the number of faithful.

“Black and white are the colours of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank

Fumarole

Mud Spring

Mt Makiling, Laguna

I say you are truly a good daughter,

For you release the anger of your mother

That would in her episode smother

My lovely mountain and those I care.

Young Pilot

(On board a Huey helicopter

from Cebu to Siquijor)

Thirteen were on the beat,

and I was the thirteenth

sharing the gunner's seat

on Friday, the thirteenth,

when at thirteen feet

above the choppy channel,

an omen challenged courage -

a young face turned and beamed

the confidence I lacked.

- AV Rotor 1993

“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.” 

– Samuel Fuller ~