Rapturous! Inspirational & Interesting Photography

This is actually a crop of the original image. Actually, it’s a crop of a crop! I had taken another one of the Ho Chi Minh Municipal Theatre, but as is pointed out in the comments of that photo, it lacked balance, and the more I looked at it, the more I was unhappy with it.

This caused me to look at some of the other images that I took, and this one jumped out of me and caused me to crop it, as I am starting to realise a trick of black and white photography – it’s about the contrast between the light and the dark. That may be an obvious thing, you might think, however when you are looking down the lens at a coloured photo, you sometimes lose the sense of the shadows and contrast that can make a great black and white photo.

This is merely my opinion, based on what I like to see in black and white photos – the ones that draw my eye – but I think I’m going to work on this a little more in more of my black and white photos for this week. And it helps to take the photo in black and white, even though I know I’m losing some of the versatility of the image.

Grungy, desolate feeling, yet somehow vibrant.  I’m not sure if that’s the word I want to describe this, but this picture draws me, for some reason.

I like the technique used in this photo – it’s one that I try occasionally myself, but not with a lot of success. The framing works well.