Monochrome Photography My Best Old Black-and-White Photographs - “Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that colour never can.”

Monochrome Photography

My Best Old Black-and-White Photographs

“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that colour 

never can.” – Jack Antonoff

Stalagmite Image

Courtesy of Emmanuel Pattaguan

UST Graduate School

Deep in an unknown cave somewhere

Grew an image from a living stone;

Its semblance and regal pose bear

The touch for the sinful to atone.

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

 – Rob Sheppard

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

Old Carillon

Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur

Your bells in the distance are a chime,

Music on the wind, reminder of time,

Calling the lost lambs from across the sea,

And linking your host in the Holy See.

“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

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

The "Tablon" Sawers*

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

If Millet were to paint this scenario,

In the masterpiece of "Man with a Hoe";

If Markham puts meaning in these duo,

Then life is a see-saw, see-saw, see-saw.

* Age old way of cutting lumber into broad planks

locally called "tablon".  San Vicente is well known

for furniture making.

To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black 

and white is a delight for the soul” – Andri Cauldwell ~