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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 26/04/2025

I went out for a walk at dusk a few evenings ago and made this image of a flowering tree that had branches hanging down over the neighbor's fence. #BlackAndWhite #photography #ClassicMono #flowers

Horizontal black and white close-up photo of one branch on a flowering tree. Several small white flowers are visible on the tip of this branch. The flowers generally open toward the left side of the frame. On a few of the flowers, the stamen are visible inside the individual blossoms.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 25/04/2025

Our forsythia had an especially good spring this year. Lots of wonderful little yellow flowers. Here's a photo of a few of them :). #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #flowers

Horizontal black and white close-up photo of some small forsythia flowers and the branch from which they're sprouting. The branch runs slightly diagonally from the lower left corner to the top middle of the frame. The flowers are on two smaller branches that have grown to the left and right of the main branch and form a Y shape. Some out-of-focus trees are visible in the background in the lower left corner. The rest of the background is empty sky.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 19/04/2025

You can't tell from the photo, but I made this image while walking through the office park where I worked (before COVID) one day on my lunchtime walk. #BlueSkyArtShow #dream #BlackAndWhite #photography #ClassicMono

Horizontal black and white image of a field with broken cloudy sky. The sun is visible in the top right corner and a lens flare emanates from the area of the sun and extends down the right 1/3 of the image to the bottom of the frame.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 15/04/2025

I was out early one morning a couple summers ago and happened to notice the sun back-lighting this fern leaf and I thought it looked really cool. #ClassicMono #BlackAndwhite #photography #plants

Black and white close up photograph of a fern leaf backlit by the sun.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 14/04/2025

FWIW, here's the B&W version

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 14/04/2025

It's not often that I prefer the color version of one of my images over the B&W version, but this is one such case. I saw these little guys (Siberian squill I think) in my lawn on Saturday and got out yesterday with my camera and flash. #MacroMonday #photography #flowers

Vertical close-up photo of a blue Siberian squill (I think) flower from my lawn. The flower is lit from the left with a flash and the background is completely black.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 13/04/2025

I was on a walk through Devil's Lake State Park last fall when we came upon these two enjoying the view. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #peaceful

Horizontal black and white photo of two people sitting on the rocky ledge of a scenic overlook.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 12/04/2025

I'm really happy with the way I was able to set these white flowers off against a (almost) completely black background. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #flowers

Horizontal black and white photo of a cluster of tiny white flowers. The background is completely black.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 07/04/2025

I found this strip of birch bark lying outside my garage door the other day. Yesterday I got out my camera and speed light and went to work. One of my goals is to get better at 'studio' lighting this year. This was my first step. #MacroMonday #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #tree #bark

Horizontal black and white close-up photo of a strip of birch bark. The white bark is curled up at one end . The bark is lit by a light out of frame to the left. The curled edged of the bark cast a shadow below an on to the rest of the bark strip.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 06/04/2025

The B&W version of this wildflower isn't as stunning as the color I saw in real life, but B&W is my thing so that's what we get 😀. I came upon this flower hanging over into the sidewalk on my morning walk last summer and just had to stop. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #stunday #flowers

Vertical black and white close-up photo of a wildflower bloom. The center of the flower is white and there are bold dark edges to each petal.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 05/04/2025

Hands Off! rally at the WI capitol. I'm a horrible estimator of crowd size, but there were a helluva lot of people there. In the last photo, you can see a sea of people from the capitol steps all the way down State St. to the UW library mall. #HandsOff #MadisonWI #rally #protest #resist #trump

Horizontal photo of protesters around the WI state capitol building. The capitol is visible in the background.

Horizontal photo of protesters around the WI state capitol building. A person in the foreground is holding a sign with a graphic illustration of the head of the statue of liberty with the word RESIST across the bottom.

Vertical photo taken from the steps of the WI state capital looking down State st. people can be seen all the way down State St. to the UW Madison campus.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 05/04/2025

Coincidentally, this photo was also made on Moon Lake (like my previous post) and just happens to fit the theme of #BlueSkyArtShow. The sun sets across the lake from the cabin we stay in and often presents interesting photo opportunities. #Silhouette #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography

Vertical black and white photo of a man fishing on the shore of a small lake. the man is standing and in silhouette against the brightness of the water. We can see a faint outline of a bench behind the man.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 04/04/2025

I made this photo from the beach of my favorite vacation spot in northern WI, USA. It's a family camp on Moon Lake where we spend a week each summer. It's the best week of the year! #scapes #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography

Square black and white photo showing two small pedal boats beached on the shore of a small lake. The lake water is very calm and reflections of scattered clouds can be seen in the lake. A dark line of pine trees can be seen on the other side of the lake.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 03/04/2025

This is another image I made for a 52Frames.com challenge. The task was to imagine a scene from a movie. My idea was to imagine that the camera comes upon this truck outside the bar and we come to understand that the protagonist must be inside. #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography

Horizontal black and white photograph of a black truck parked on the street outside of a tavern. The truck occupies the lower left 1/4 of the image. The businesses, including the tavern occupy the right half of the image. The rest is blank white sky.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 30/03/2025

I don't remember where we were when I made this image, but I'm pretty sure it was a small town somewhere in WI, USA. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography

Vertical black and white photo of an empty sidewalk lined by shops on the left side. Long the right side of the image are street lamp posts with a small amount of dirty snow piled at the base of each.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 29/03/2025

One holiday season I headed over to the nearby outdoor shopping mall and saw this large lighted sign at one end of the main mall road. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #holiday #decoration

Horizontal black and white photo of a large lighted sign that says "CHEER". In the background we can se the lights of an outdoor shopping center.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 28/03/2025

I walked out of a shop in the small town where my wife is from and noticed how cool the arches separating the shops from the sidewalk looked. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #architecture

Vertical black and white photo of a covered entrance to a row of shops. There is a series of four arches separating the covered entrance from the public sidewalk. The photo is taken from behind the arches inside the covered entrance. The arges are visible starting from the right edge of the photo and falling away to the middle of the photo. The shop entrances are just out of frame on the left edge of the image.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 27/03/2025

I walk or drive past this rack of e-bikes almost every day and it's rarely this full. So when I saw it, I walked home and got my camera because the visual of the full row of bikes intrigued me. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #bicycles

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 27/03/2025

I noticed the strong shadows and directional light on the back of our sofa one morning when the sunlight was streaming in our living room window. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #furniture #upholstry

Black and white photo of the back of a cloth upholstered sofa. Morning sunlight is streaming in from a window which is out of the frame above the top left corner of the image. The back of the sofa is tufted and four of the buttons (or at least button indentations) are visible. The camera is close to the back of the sofa so the right side of the image is in focus. Focus falls off as the subject on the left side of the image is further from the lens. The texture of the tweed-like fabric is visible in the in-focus parts of the image.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 27/03/2025

This chess board was set up and ready for play in a rental home we stayed at on a spring break vacation a few years ago. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #chess #game

Horizontal black and white (sepia toned) image of a chess board with pieces prepared for the start of a match. The dark pieces are close to the viewer and the light pieces are in the background and out of focus.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 26/03/2025

These are all so similar I figured I'd just share them in one post instead of 4 nearly identical ones :) #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #antique

Horizontal black and white close-up photo of rows of keys on an antique typewriter.

Horizontal black and white close-up photo of rows of keys on an antique typewriter. The name plate above the keys says "Underwood Noiseless".

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 26/03/2025

The next few will be a series of typewriter close-ups taken one afternoon at a local antique store. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #antique

Vertical black and white photo showing the row of typebars in an antique typewriter.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 25/03/2025

This is a favorite flower shot of mine. I like to find things around the house and put them right next to the kitchen window and see what I can make with the natural light. I might try again soon using a focus stack. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #flowers

Horizontal black and white close-up photo of a white chrysanthemum bloom. The flower takes up the bottom 4/5 of the frame while the top 1/5 shows an out-of-focus background.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 25/03/2025

This image was made for a 52Frames.com weekly assignment. I forget what the theme was, but it was probably something about floating objects. I suspended this bunch of grapes over the plate and removed the yellow thread in Affinity Photo. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #Photography

Vertical black and white photo of a bunch of red grapes suspended in mid air above a gray plate.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 24/03/2025

I found this silver metallic ribbon lying around after wrapping gifts one day and thought it looked cool. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography

Horizontal black and white photo of thin curly silver metallic ribbon.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 23/03/2025

Holy cow!! @uwbadgers.bsky.social Win the Women's Ice Hockey Natty in OT after tying the game on a penalty shot with 19 seconds left in regulation!! Kirsten Simms scored both of those goals. Unbelievable! #hockey #ncaa

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 23/03/2025

This metal artwork adorns the gate to a community garden at the local elementary school. The afternoon light was really captivating one day, so I used it to make this image. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #MetalArt #sculpture

Horizontal black and white photo of a metal art sculpture that serves as the gate to a community garden. There are round horizontal bars that run from the left side of the image to the right. The bars are just slightly higher on the right edge of the fame than on the left and focus fades from the center of the image as the eye moves to the right. There is a half 'sunburst' type of element on the left side of the frame that is made up of what appears to be 7 individual scissor blades arranged in a semicircle.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 22/03/2025

There is a small stand of these foxglove flowers at the edge of the road leading to the parking lot of the family camp we visit each summer in northern WI. It's a magical place and these flowers are one of the things I always look forward to seeing. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #Photography #flowers

Vertical black and white close-up photograph of foxglove flowers. The viewer sees the flowers from a low vantage point and can peer slightly up into a few individual blooms to see the black spots within.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 22/03/2025

Wandering around antique stores looking for subjects is a favorite pastime of mine. The lighting in these stores is often less than ideal, but I was lucky to find these jars near a large window. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #antiques

Vertical black and white photo of glass mason jars with one-piece metal screw-on lids. These jars are on a shelf in an antique store.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 22/03/2025

I found this basket in an antique shop while visiting my daughter during her Freshman year of college. I find myself drawn to texture and patterns and this basket fit the bill perfectly. #BlackAndWhite #photography #ClassicMono

Black and white close-up photo of the bottom of a woven basket.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 22/03/2025

Alright, it's time for me to start sharing my backlog of photos. Spoiler alert, they're all gonna be B&W :) This one was the result of some studio lighting experimentation. I just happened to have the apple handy to use as my subject. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #Photography

Black and white close-up photo of a Braeburn apple. The apple occupies almost the entire frame. The corners of the frame are plain black.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 26/02/2025

So my first Bluesky post was politically oriented, but when the country's not being actively ruined by idiotic politicians I'll generally be posting black and white photos like this. #ClassicMono #BlackAndWhite #photography #antique

Horizontal black and white photo of the keys on an antique typewriter.

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Paul E. @paulephotography.com · 25/02/2025

If you're in or around Madison, WI on Friday 2/28 at 4pm, there's going to be a #TeslaTakedown protest at the Tesla Supercharger at 675 S. Whitney Way (Corner of Whitney and Odana Rd.) actionnetwork.org/events/tesla... #MadisonWI #StopElon #BuildTheResistance

Red-tinted image of Elon Musk's head/face wearing a MAGA hat. The text "GTFO ELON" is superimposed over the image.

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