Black and White Beauty

I don’t think this is just: they are often better composed than color photos. The key difference between the two is that black and white focus on form and color focuses on, well, color. Too much color and you turn your photo into a quagmire of imagery.

This piece which @diana3009 posted shows the beauty of black and white:

Credits: diana3009

I don’t think a color photo could have captured the moodiness of the forest quite as vividly as this image.

written by emperornorton on 2014-11-06