Monochrome gallery

Long ago, there really was no alternative to monochrome photography. That’s why most of us think of the past as a world lived in shades of grey. It is only since the emergence of colour film that anyone would question whether monochrome or colour are to be preferred. Even today, some photographers only see the world in black and white… while others can’t understand why anyone would ever want to suck the colour out of life.

We don’t usually go out deliberately to shoot in monochrome, but sometimes an image really lends itself to such a treatment. Indeed, it seems rare to find an image that works equally well in either form. Shooting digitally in raw gives us the flexibility to make that decision at a later stage, and to use the colour channels to simulate traditional black and white filters. Yes, that may be a bit offensive to monochrome purists, but it works for us. We hope the gallery below is of interest!

Tokyo underground
West Pier after the storm
Roots
Air show
High above Hong Kong
Keep out
Mount Lycabettus
Stranger in a strange land
A fine day out
Me and my shadow
Two faced
Kebab shop
Paternoster Square
Study in white
Seeing the wood for the trees
He is the one to blame…
On the front
Winter sun at Nymans Gardens
Circle of Lebanon, Highgate
Athens
Car park at noon
The roundhouse
ICC building, Hong Kong
Lighthouse staircase
Wind farm
View from the top
Dungeness lighthouse
Grass
Dungeness wasteland
Strolling in the City
Seaside solitude
Tokyo salary man, returning home

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