My B&W Weekend - Part 2

[Mike Buckley]

A few weeks ago when I began thinking about my weekend of photography in western Maryland, I decided to think and shoot everything in black-and-white. I have never done that before, as I have always thought in color or black-and-white, depending on what was appropriate for the scene I was photographing. Now that I've focused entirely on monochrome for the weekend with very few exceptions when a couple of scenes were just begging to be photographed in color, I can really appreciate why people such as Donald make very few color photos in an entire year.

Though I didn't title a thread as Part 1 of my B&W weekend, that thread would have been this one.

Now on to Part 2: This series of photos was captured in Oakland, Maryland, a small country town with some historic buildings including a train station built in 1884 now being used only as a museum.


Photo 1: St. Matthew's Catholic Church



Photo 2: St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Built by the same person responsible for building the train station. Four U.S. presidents have worshiped at the church.)



Photo 3: Deer Park Hotel Museum



Photo 4: B&O Train Station (Some day when I've got time to kill, I'll spend hours eliminating the electrical wires while preserving the intricate pattern in the exterior of the building. Sheesh!)



Photo 5: Railroad Car Latch

[Shadowman]

Very nice series. I could see some white lettering emblazoned across the wires in the fourth image, old style telegraph message or just the name of the station.

[deetheturk]

Another great set Mike!

[John 2]

That's a great set Mike. I don't know why you don't do more. Are these conversions or Mono SOOC.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice images again Mike

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, everyone!

All of them are conversions, John, using a color filter. Not SOOC. Not desaturated.