This week’s photo-theme is Black and White and Long Ago. I’ll try to post monochrome images that speak of ages passing in place, buildings, scenes from nearby. I like the feel of old books, the hand-drawn illustrations from pastoral settings and the simple life. I you have shots with a similar feel and atmosphere, send links for us to visit.
When I began reading books about mountaineering — that’s to say the accounts written by the mountaineers themselves, rather than glossy ‘coffee table’ picture books — the photos were almost exclusively black and white. So in my mind, black and white mountain photos have become associated with that golden age of mountaineering in the middle years of the 20th century. A while back I had a bit of fun putting some of my own shots into black and white, and imagining them as the backdrop to an account of some of those pioneering alpine ascents. The one colour photo gives the real 21st century context!
Oops, did something wrong with the link there. Should be: http://olderandgrowing.blogspot.com/2008/01/elemental.html
While it’s not black and white, I’ve always thought this shot from the fall of 2007 of the Wautaga River Mill Dam downstream from Valle Crucis, NC had a old book illustration fill.
Lovely. Black and white defines.
This one was taken in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, assuming my decrepit old website still works.