B&W FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

This gallery presents B&W fine art photos that capture the beauty of the black & white photography medium, ready for your choice of matting and framing for display on a home or office wall. "Fine Art" photography might best be described as where the "art" in the photo (dramatic contrasts of light and dark, composition, texture, visual impact etc.) can be more important than the subject. This can be accomplished in-camera using only composition, exposure controls, sunlight and shadows, the choice of film and lens filters to get the most dramatic image; or when processing the print using changes in contrast, color tints, the emphasis of grain, the use of artistic filters, multiple printing, background removal and other techniques to yield an "artistic" look similar to pen and ink or pencil art.



WINTER: SNAKE RIVER and GRAND TETONS   
(From the Snake River Ovelook, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.)
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SANGRE de CRISTO MOUNTAINS
("Blood of Christ" Mountains, San Luis Valley, Colorado.)
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WINTER COAT
(Mt. Evans, Colorado)


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CENTURIES OLD SURVIVORS
(Bristlecone pines commonly live for several hundred to as long as 4,000 years, Windy Ridge, Colorado Rocky Mountains.)


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BIG FISH LAKE
(Flat Tops Wilderness
Area, Colorado.)


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WAGON WHEEL POINT
(Yampa River overlook, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.)


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HARPERS CORNER
(Yampa River overlook, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado.)
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YELLOWSTONE LAKE
(Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming)
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DAWN on the UNION PACIFIC    (La Salle, Colorado)     Order Image



LEAVING DENVER
(Denver & Rio Grande Western's "Rio Grnde Zephyr" past Arvada, Colorado.)
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SPRING ROUNDUP
(Sombrero Ranch's annual May roundup from winter range
pasture in northwest Colorado.)
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BULLDOGGING
(Background removal, grainy film and high contrast dramatically capture the "gritty"
nature of this fast rodeo action with a "pen and ink drawing" look.)
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LIFE in the BIG CITY ?

"Silas swar that afore too many more winters he would be gone beaver,
what war left of his old bones bleaching in the sun by the Seedskadee.
Tarnation, this child war near-bout 30 by his last count!

His broke leg war healed up, 'tho he would never run agin with the bone
set all crooked like that. Ol' ephraim had tooken a hunk outun his behindt.
And that danged arrerhead in his shoulder still gave him fits in the winter.

He still had his har, though Bug's Boys had tried many times ter raise it.
But this ol' coon war the lucky one, he reckoned. His last two trapping
partners war gone under, sculped and then skint alive whilst tied ter
a stake by the Rees.

Last two seasons, Rapahos stol all his cached plews, and he had ter et his favrit hos
this past winter jest ter survive. Given his meager remaining foofaraw he really
needed ter make it ter the rondevu this spring. But he still owed Jeb at the fort $10
fer his saddle. At this rate, he would never git out of the Company's debt and
become a free trapper afore it became time fer him ter go over the last divide.

Worst of all, jest what he had feared most had come ter pass. The Rockies
had gotten just too danged crowded. Why, today a body could not ride fer more
than ten mile without coming acrosst another new family's homestead!

But still in all, Silas reflected that he had made the right decision that spring
day back in Virginny, when he hyared bout the mountain men and the shinin
mountains away out west. Life in the big city would sartin shar have been
too danged hard ter take!

May yor pack be full of plews, yor trails free of griz, watch yor topknot,
and I will watch mine!

WAGH, that shines some!"





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A COWBOY'S SUIT and TIE
From break of dawn 'till setting sun, a cowboy's day is full and long. Coming home tired and hurtin', clothes all dirty and torn. Ridin' 'n buckin' 'n lassoin' 'n stuff don't leave much time for partying 'n such.

Some months, I spend over 20 days driving to rodeos, sleeping in my truck. Last year I broke both arms and my right leg, then my wife left me for a banker. And today it looks like I go home again without any winnings.

If I ain't rodeoing, I'm all day tending the stock or cutting hay while eating dust and burning in the sun. And I've lost count of all the nights I've spent riding the range in freezing rain and blizzards looking for lost calves.

But it sure beats sittin' at a desk with a suit and tie on!




WOOLLY MAMMOTH
(Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado.)

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WAR of 1812 SOLDIER
(This War of 1812 impressionist at a Civil War re-enactment posing in front of a white tent for a clear background made a nice photo, but was further processed to remove all of the background and a "Graphic Pen" filter applied for a pen and ink drawing look.)

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The MUZZLELOADER
(The background behind this mountain man re-enactor was removed and a "Graphic Pen" filter applied for an artistic "pen & ink" drawing effect.)

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GET ALONG LITTLE DOGGIE     Order Image



TRIPTYCH
(At the Denver Zoo in Colorado, giraffes in similar poses from two separate photos composited together and background brick wall removed.)


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NORTH PIER LIGHT
(Green Bay, Menominee, Michigan)
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GAS CREEK SCHOOL
(With storm clouds over the Collegiate Range in the Colorado Rocky Mountains:
See another view of this nostalgic old school in the Americana Gallery.)
   
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GLADE CREEK MILL
(Built in 1976 from parts of three area mills, in Babcock State Park near Cliffside, West Virginia. 35mm high grain B&W film, printed with high contrast for a vintage nostalgic look.)


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STARK BROS. STORE
(St Elmo, Colorado, with "pencil drawing" texture effect.)     See Texture Detail     Order Image



MIDWEST BARN
(This nostalgic old barn in rural Wisconsin was a perfect subject for printing with a
high contrast for a "pen and ink / pencil drawing" effect, with a sepia tone.)
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CHAMA STATION
(1899 Denver & Rio Grande RR station, now part of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR
in Chama, New Mexico. Original image on 35mm grainy B&W film printed in highcontrast,
then a mild golden color selectively applied to match the color of the station.)
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BIG BUGLE
(A tracking collar around the neck and a dark background somewhat diminished the photo of
this magnificent bull elk with a huge 13-point rack in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.
The forest background was removed to make him stand out clearly and the collar covered by
copying a bit of hair over it to create the more dramatic look he deserved.)
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GRAND LAKE FISHERMAN
(Grand Lake, Colorado)


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ON the PROWL
(Denver Zoo, Denver Colorado)




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