Black and White – Page 17 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

Smoke

the world disappears the heart opens — Message to the dead. First smoke of spring.

low tide twilight almost equinox new moon

low tide twilight cove — back water, Town Creek

Taxodium distichum

three + bald cypress — The National Champion Bald Cypress is in the Cat Island Nation Wildlife Refuge, near St. Francisville, Louisiana, and it is 96 feet (29 m) tall, 56 feet (17 m) in circumference, and is estimated to be approximately 1,500 years old. The oldest known living specimen, found along the Black River in North Carolina, is at least 2,624 years old, rendering it the oldest living tree in eastern North America.– Wikipedia

Street Tree

Hackberry — One of two City street trees on Market Street in the Woolen Mills.

environmental services and power generation

trees and bushes — Approaches to environmental stewardship vary. Some humans make a home in the temperate biome and pay the utility company to generate the power they require for daily living.

solar panels — Another approach to “saving the planet” is to engage in the direct production of electricity for household use.

Aquinnah

Boston to MV — over water in a small plane on a gusty winter day

west view from Aquinnah? — the Banshees of Inisherin gets straight to the point. Islands are great places to visit.

Ann’s shoes

shoes — Ann’s shoes

daffodils and gnawing the Acer saccharinum

Acer saccharinum — Tilly gnaws a bit of bark off this silver maple most mornings. This is the only tree she knaws.

Cocke Hall Crow

natural black and white

Pantops view — Usually I desaturate photographs, I take the color out. It is an extra step that has been introduced to the b&w workflow since the days of shooting only black and white film.

Monticello hotel — On occasion there are natural conditions where the quality of the light available seems to strip most color from the scene. As a person in pursuit of b&w photos I love it when the natural b&w occurs.
This is the view from the Martha Jefferson Hospital parking lot. In the distance, the silhouette of the Monticello Hotel, in the far distance, the Blue Ridge Mountains.