The sun got to me yesterday. The shadows on the moss made me think of a lateral skull X-ray. Overnight my silly head kept thinking about it. I even dug out my old Grays Anatomy. The book, not the TV series. Just to satisfy my poor insomniac head that wanted to sleep.
” What keeps you up at night”
“Just random nonsense”
Some of the proportions are a bit wrong and the stick to the back of the neck is rather a lethal look. But a bit of superimposition shows why it was a hard thought to shift.
Diagnostic imaging was my trade for many years. The majority of modalities in imaging produce pictures in black and white or more correctly in Grey scale. As an artist grey scale has always been my guide when judging my coloured work. A black and white photograph always lets me know if a painting has the balance I am hoping to achieve.
Hugo and Lola have been known to pose in locations that lend themselves to Black and White.
In this case at Dungeness, Britain’s only desert on the Kent coast.
The unusual environment lends itself to greyscale.
All round the coast of Britain, black and white somehow brings peace and silence to an image that could, with colour be garish or over ripe.
Wells-next-the-sea
Gigs at Saltash, Cornwall
Another monotone shot in real life colour.
Retaining walls at Samphire Hoe Country Park. An artificial land mass built from the extracted materials created by the tunneling for the Chanel Tunnel. A Nature Preserve. http://www.samphirehoe.com/uk/visit-us/
And finally back to Radiography.
A cardiac angiogram of the left coronary artery, the basis of the pattern that heads this blog.
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