More at: Black & White Wednesdays ~ Honey Bee
Category: Black and White photos
Monochrome Madness (21) – Wooden train from 1952
One of these photos is my submission to week 21 to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
I saw this wooden train(1952) in Porvoo, it still regulary takes tourist on a ride it is pulled bya steam locomotive .All details can be seen better by clicking at an image to enlarge them.
more at Monochrone Madness tomorrow July 22th.
The Weekend in Black and White
Black and White Wednesdays ~ Indoors
Monochrome Madness (20) – Books
One of these photos is my submission to week 20 to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
I chose these photos because I liked the looks of these books as they are, old hardcover books are so beutifully binded.They are also well read and that is the so important in a book… I thought they would look good also in BW. Hope you agree.
All details can be seen better by clicking at an image to enlarge them.
more at Monochrone Madness tomorrow July 15th.
Black and White Wednesday ~ old house
This house is very old.
Yet, it stands so gracefully.
If the walls could only talk.
I bet they’d have a lot to say.
It holds a lot of memories,
buried deep inside.
It seems to stand with attitude,
as if it carries pride.
It stands upon the foundation,
seeming to claim the land.
Refusing to wither from age
with a little help from my man.
Not one room, is a favorite,
each displays a special touch.
It might be old but, we don’t mind.
We love it very much.
by Sherri Ramirez
The Weekend in Black and White
A street view from Tammisaari, Finland
This post is linked to The Weekend in Black and White
Black and White Wednesday ~ Lighthouse
Monochrome Madness (19)- Billnäs
One of these photos is my submission to week 19 to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
All details can be seen better by clicking at an image to enlarge them.
I visited the small town of Billnäs last weekend such a pictureque place. These pictures are details of one of the mills machines.
Carl Billsten founded Billnäs ironworks in 1641. In Billnäs many buildings remain from the end of the 18thcentury. Nowadays, Billnäs is known for the world-famous orange-handled scissors made by Fiskars Oy, the knife and tools manufacturer.
Billnäs has become an important centre for building renovation in Finland thanks to “Byggnadsapoteket” (the house repairing consultants) who also run courses in-house restoration. The ironworks area has a gardening history dating back more than 350 years, and the oldest plant nursery in Finland.
Billsten`s period (1641-1723)The location of Ironworks was good – In Billnäs the River Mustio has a large precipice so there was no need for larger weir. Also the transport connections from sea and land were good. Alike the needed expendable wood was received from the forests in the surroundings of Billnäs.
- More info at: http://www.billnas.fi/en/history.html
more at Monochrone Madness in a weeks time 😉
Macro Monday – Round Rocks
linked to Macro Monday 2
Odd – Old stuff in a warehouse
I don’t know, if it is odd to photograph stuff, old unused stuff. I have been doing a lot of this lately. In the places everything is chaos, but in a photo it suddenly looks good, the mess, so odd. These are from a old carpenters workroom , not in use any more. The tools are old as you can see, as are the bikes.
Thanks Cee for your support!
Congratulations! I have selected your post to be featured on Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge!
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/06/29/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-week-18/
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: Week 18
Barn details in color and in black and white
Which works better?
Monochrome Madness (18)- Old Tallinn Town
This is my week 18 submission to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
These are taken from The Towers Square in Tallinn. All Photos can be enlarged by a click.
Built up from the 13th to 16th centuries, when Tallinn – or Reval as it was known then – was a thriving member of the Hanseatic trade league, this enclosed neighbourhood of colourful, gabled houses, half-hidden courtyards and grandiose churches is, quite rightly, the city’s biggest tourist draw. And the fact that it’s all neatly packaged within a mostly intact city wall and dotted with guard towers gives it an extra dose of fairytale charm.
Tallinn Old Town is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
more at Monochrone Madness in a weeks time 😉
Black and White Wednesday ~ Keys
Odd – Antenna reflected in a waterbarrel
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: Week 17
Landscapes in Black and White
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Landscapes in Black and White
Flowers in Black and White
The Weekend in Black and White
This is my entry for The weekend in black and white . Abandoned storage building at Ruuhijärvi, I took a peek in through this window hole (below)and saw this mess.
Trash in Monochrome
Monochrome Madness Week – Log Sauna by the lake
It’s …Monochrome Madness ~ Week 17, what a wonderful challenge and a wonderful group of people participating. I am enjoying different subjects and approaches, picking new ideas along the way. I do my new post right after the previous one so I won’t forget.
This is an old log sauna I saw a week ago, I find old building to look good in BW.
Black and White Wednesday ~ Old Fiskars knife
I found this old fiskars knfe at our summer house, the place has so much old stuff to be discover an photograph.
Boy
The Weekend in Black and White
old building next to the railway tracks in Tallinn in Estonia
More at. http://blackandwhiteweekend.blogspot.co.nz/
Daily Post – Burned log wall
Which looks better, the original below or the monochrome version?
more at; http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/extra-extra/
Monochrome Madness 16 – Details of a field sawmill
This is my week 15 submission to the Monochrome Madness Challenge hosted by Leanne Cole and Laura Macky.
I saw this field sawmill beside a country road, as we were searching for old lumber, as always, I had to take photos. My first thought was that these would look good in black and white. Do you agree?
Black and White Wednesday ~ Ramshackled building
These run-down houses look so good in photos, this building is located at Kalamaja area in Tallinn in Estonia.
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 