Strating from the color to (occasionally) end up with B&W

I love colors and till a few years ago  I’ve usually considered kinda ridiculous to take pictures in Black and White… unless there is a specific will, for example:

-”I want to make the picture look old”

- “I want to play with editing photos program”

- “I want to see how it looks like”, etc…

I found pretty annoying people that say “B&W is MORE artistic…”. Every time some told me such a thing I had to “bite my toungue” to not start asking: “What do you mean by “more artistic”? Why don’t you just say “I like B&W more”?”

I don’t have many B&W pictures… except those one that are”low key shots” (or kinda) like this:

or because, for some reason that I don’t know a picture seemed telling me:

“I might look nice in B&W, try”.

Thanks Lord taking pictures is not something that follows a 100% logical path, it’s a lot based on instinct (or feelings if you wanna be a little more “romantic”).

I NEVER take shots directly in B&W, even when I think that I’ll  turn that picture in a B&W one. Why? 2 simple reason.

1) A man I trust a lot (as a photographer) once told me that it works better if you take your pictures in raw and color mode. So the first cause is that I’m able to “trust”.

2) I’m a dreamer (or unsure) kind of person: I always think that later I might enjoy that shot more in color than in B&W, so “Why should I cut a chance of a better beauty in my life?”

Here I’m just telling my “way to be” with no intention of teaching something… How could I?
I’m the “living abortion” of a physicist and an i-photographer (imaginary photographer) who knows pretty few about post production and quite nothing about photography history… therefore my words worth quite nothing in both worlds, but I do think that I might share “Beauty I see”, therefore I’ll keep on taking this blog. At least it helps me to not get crazy and start hating life

Enjoy your life!

“Stolen” words

Have a lot to study, no time to finish, despite all my little “problems” I wanted to share something beautiful anyway.

I decided to “steal” part from this amazing letter I’m trying to read.

“Every genuine artistic intuition goes beyond what the senses perceive and, reaching beneath reality’s surface, strives to interpret its hidden mystery. The intuition itself springs from the depths of the human soul, where the desire to give meaning to one’s own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things. All artists experience the unbridgeable gap which lies between the work of their hands, however successful it may be, and the dazzling perfection of the beauty glimpsed in the ardour of the creative moment: what they manage to express in their painting, their sculpting, their creating is no more than a glimmer of the splendour which flared for a moment before the eyes of their spirit.

Believers find nothing strange in this: they know that they have had a momentary glimpse of the abyss of light which has its original wellspring in God. Is it in any way surprising that this leaves the spirit overwhelmed as it were, so that it can only stammer in reply?”

Pope John Paul II

I’m not an artist, but there words are so true for me…

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