The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Category: monochrome

  • Time Capsule

    #WDYS Behold..a Box of delights Bringing back boyhood memories Black and White might have been surpassed by colour But there’s nothing better than monochrome memories Brilliant Ball games on Blackpool Beach Being by Grandad on a trip to the gardens or Building up sandcastles by the sand dunes Brought together in a Box and stored…

  • #1to3_tsc #Photochallenge For this month’s photo challenge, I took a walk down the road to the new home of BBC North – Mediacity UK, by the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. Using the new bridge i took a couple of pics with my Nikon D3100 (it may be old – but it works!) Subject…

  • Artoo goes exploring

    #Imagination #Character Salford 27th May 2020 I’m guessing he got bored of listening to the hum of my TV I’d cleared up the workspace, and used my desk cleaner – in the shape of Starwars favourite, R2-D2 to clean up Hex, the laptop i write this blog on. I headed off downstairs for a spot…

  • Challenge 30 – No3

    Something in Colour and Black and white Something B&W and in Colour…. Two things, my England Barbarians Top and My Imperial War Museum Fleece The BaBa Rugby Shirt is Black and White, Whilst my Museum Fleece has had all the colour drained from it – it would be brilliant red if this were colour…. Both…

  • Challenge 30 – No2

    #Challenge30 #Photography Things in 3 A shelf with a host of miniature objects. At the Front – Three Snowglobes The First – a Winnie the Pooh Snowscene…. The Second – a Windmill Snowglobe from the Island Rhodes The Third – a Snowglobe from the Sea Life Centre, Manchester It didn’t matter if it didn’t snow…

  • #C&BW #Benches I had to think about this particular challenge I mean…. what kind of bench? One on a path in a park ? Or Perhaps one by the water? Decisions decisions… eventually I took the decision to do both, both were taken in areas of my hometown, the first was taken with my Nikon…

  • The colour seeped out of the image as the dial on the camera was turned in seconds, pastel colours turned into shades of grey as the metallic silver objects shined

  • Back of a Leaf

    J  #C&BW A Simple leaf , on the tarmac and gravel of the car park of #BASIC, the brain and spinal injury centre in Salford. Fallen by the wind, or the passing of time with the coming of autumn, this humble leaf gave me another chance to create something special. Been messing around with the…