Jude’s Garden photography challenge this month is monochrome, and this is my second entry. Last week I posted flowers, but like Jude I wouldn’t usually convert flowers to black and white and now here I am doing it again. As she points out this week, it’s all about texture, shape and structure, get that right and even flowers can look good in black and white.
So, what do you think, does this tick the box?
Lucid Gypsy 
Stunning against the white background. 🙂 ❤ ❤
Thanks honey, glad you like it 🙂
I do. I continue to learn to appreciate and learn lots of new things in blog world. ❤ ❤
This mono image is beautiful and perfect! Love the texture, lighting, composition…. ❤ ❤
Thanks Amy, I tend to agree with Jude -I could crop it out further!
Perfect, Gilly. Love how the textures show up. 🙂
Thanks Sylvia, i though the contrasts worked quite well.
Texture, shape and structure bang on, Gilly!
Bless you, I’m glad you like it!
I do’
Ticks the box and gets a gold star! Oh wow did my eyes light up with the texture and contrast! What kind of flower is this?
I think it is Eryngium – sea holly. Beautiful texture.
Thanks J
Jude is right of course Yvette, they are prickly beasts but I love them!
I can see why you love them. 🙂
Very interesting. Have you processed this as infra red before converting to black and white? It is a very strong contrasting image and great shape. And arrangements of threes always looks good. I think I’d go even further and crop it really tight though I love the fading shapes echoing at the right-hand side. You have raised the bar Gilly 🙂
Thanks honey, I just converted to black and white and then inverted – an action that often works well but I forget about it. Thanks also for choosing monochrome, I used to edit lots of photos and this month is getting me playing again 🙂
Glad you are having fun. I must give that edit a try.
I like this Gilly the softly blurred background of leaves (is it material?) compliments the spiky flower heads.
No fabric Pauline, it’s all plants, glad you like it 🙂
I love how you have got the background so soft and understated, it highlights the main plants
great image
Thanks Irene, its nice to see you 🙂
I like the look. It allows you to concentrate on the flower without the distraction of colours 😊
Thanks sis, I thought so too, I quite like monochrome and its surprising what kind of image it works well with!
That is so dramatic and other worldly, Gilly. And works really really well.
Thanks Tish, I always admire what I call your ‘dark edits’!
Ooooh. Now that’s something to conjure with – dark edits. Thanks for conferring same, Gilly.
Stunning shot!
You are so clever. This ticks all the boxes…