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!

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

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