“The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed.” -Garry Winogrand #Scotland #Edinburgh #street #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #silhouettes

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau #Scotland #Hightlands #GlenCoe #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitelandscape #simple #photography

“Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.” – Alan Moore #Scotland #GlenCoe #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #expressivephotography #

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” -Diane Arbus #Scotland #IsleofSkye #Portree #monochrome #travel #blackandwhite #expressivephotography #blackandwhitephotography #street

“When people look at my pictures, I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” – Robert Frank #Scotland #Edinburgh #street #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitestreet #weather #atmosphere

“I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it.” – Mary Ellen Mark #Scotland #minimal #landscapephography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #nature #expressive

“Photography, even though some people refer to it as a mechanical process, forces you to reach out to the world in front of you.” – Olivia Parker #Scotland #Pitlochry #autumn #fall #fallcolor #nature #trees #ephemeral #VisualHaiku #expressivelandscape #landscapephotography #

“My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.” – Jerry Uelsmann #Northwoods #Wisconsin #forests #autumn #fallcolor #nature #trees #expressivephotography #landscapephotography #photography

“Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.” – Charles Eames #Wisconsin #northwoods #WisconsinRiver #autumn #fall #fallcolor #water #landscapephotogrpahy #councilgroundsstatepark

“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.” – John F. Kennedy #Wisconsin #Northwoods #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitelandscape #landscapephotography #photography #foggy #atmosphere #mooody #mono #nature

“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.“ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke #CaddoLake #texas #swamp #cypress #autumn #monochrome #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitelandscape #expressive #moody #expressivephotography #nature

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. Elliott Erwitt #Wisconsin #Northwoods #blackandwhitelandscape #foggy #atmosphere #moody #monochrome #blackandwhite #VilasCounty #

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want". Andy Warhol #Wisconsin #highkey #northwoods #moody #atmosphere #foggy #nature #trees

“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson #Venice #Italy #water #atmosphere #moody #foggy #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhite_photography #expressivephotography

“Black and white photography erases time from the equation.” – Jason Peterson #Venice #Italy #water #blackandwhitephotography #foggy #moody #monochrome #atmosphere #streetphotography #et

We need Pete so badly.

“Black and white finds a new strength in unlikely subjects, taking away the distractions of colour and emphasizing form, texture and shape.” – David Prakel #Canada #Lunenburg #coast #water #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #Sony #sea

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” -Leo Tolstoy #Canada #NovaScotia #minimalistphotography #blackandwhite #foggy #atmosphere #water #monochrome #simple

“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black.” – Henri Matisse #Canada #NewBrunswick #StJohn #blackandwhite #street #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography

“What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like reading the book than seeing the movie.” – Jennifer Price #Canada #NovaScotia #Lunenburg #boats #fog #atmosphere #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #blackandwhitelandscape #water #moody

“I love black and white. It’s abstract and interpretive.” – Herb Ritts #Canada #NovaScotia #blackandwhite #monochrome #textures #streets #architecture

“Black and white isn’t just an aesthetic choice. It’s an ongoing dialogue between the past and present.” – Anonymous #Canada #NovaScotia #monochrome #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #water #nature #Atlantic #expressivephotography

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

“Black and white photography allows us to see with a different eye, to visit a different world.” – John Daido Loori #Canada #maritime #NovaScotia #Lunenburg #monochrome #simple #boats #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #harbor #water

“Allow yourself to lose your way.” – Jay Maisel #Madison #Wisconsin #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #nature #Leica #mulberry #Olbrich #inversion

“A photograph is the pause button on life.” -Ty Holland #Wisconsin #Madison #StateStreet #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #Leica #street #streets #streetphotograpy

“The camera’s only job is to get out of the way because if it doesn’t, you’re going to be fighting with it all day long.” – David Alan Harvey #Chicago #rain #weather #atmosphere #blackandwhite #monochrome #street #streetphotography

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” – Tony Robbins #Wisconsin #Northwoods #blackandwhite #photography #expressivephotography #monochrome #reflections #nature

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson #Chicago #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #candid #monochrome

“Street photography is not about finding the perfect subject; it’s about seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.” — Martin Parr #Chicago #street #streetphotography #monochrome #weather #atmosphere #blackandwhite

“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.” – Robert Frank #Chicago #atmosphere #rain #streetphotography #streets #blackandwhitephotography #humans

We are COOKED

“To me, photography is the art of frozen time… the ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame.” – Meshack Otieno #Chicago #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitelandscapes #weather

“The most anyone of us can seem to do is to fashion something — an object or ourselves — and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force” — Ernest Becker #Chicago #streetphotography #Streets #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #nightphotography

“What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.” — Ruth Bernhard #Chicago #cityscape #boattour #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitelandscape #street #sunset

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust #California #redwoods #ferns #nature #blackandwhitephotography #inversions #monochrome #smallscenes

“The challenge for artists is just as it is for everyone else: to face facts and somehow come up with a yes, to try for alchemy.” – Robert Adams. #Madison #UW #Terrace #Wisconsin #nightime #blackandwhite #street #streetphotography #monochrome #nightime

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ― Aristotle #Wisconsin #Madison #PicnicPoint #lotus #lotuspads #nature #outdoors #expressivephotography #glow

“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.” – Henry Moore #Madison #Wisconsin #ivy #streets #parkingramps #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #nature

“Of course it’s all luck.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson #Wisconsin #Madison #ConcertsontheSquare #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #street #streets #nighttime #streetphotography #mono

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk. Edward Weston #DeathValley #California #NationalParks #blackandwhite #blackandwhitelandscapes #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography

#Madison #Wisconsin #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #mono #reflections

A photographer can describe a better world only by better seeing the world as it is in front of him. Robert Adams #California #redwoods #blackandwhite #monochrome #sunbeams #foggy #atmosphere #moody #HumboldtCounty

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” – Ansel Adams #Madison #Wisconsin #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #street #streetphotography

“Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; And then do it.” – Duane Michals #Oregon #coast #atmosphere #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitelandscape #photography #moody

“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.” – Alan Cohen #Santefe #NewMexico #southwest #adobe #blackandwhite #blackandwhitelandscape #monochrome

“All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.” – Elliott Erwitt #Wisconsin #Madison #FLW #MononaTerrace #blackandwhite #monochrome #night #Leica #FrankLloydWright

“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity.” – Thomas Carlyle #Wisconsin #StateNaturalAreas #nature #blackandwhite #blackandwhite #monochrome #smallscenes

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.” – Ralph Hattersley #Madison #UnionTerrace #Madison #UW #mono #monochrome #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography