Welcome to the Sunday Stills monthly color challenge! To acknowledge the Halloween season, I thought we could explore our various subjects that show black and/or metallic colors like bronze, silver, pewter, etc — any metallic is fine. Black and white images and monochrome are also encouraged but not required.
Walking Around in Nature
When I schedule my weekly themes, I am always on the lookout for scenes that work for the theme while on my daily walks. I must drive a few miles from my neighborhood to find Autumn foliage. I struck gold (or at least black metallic) at the park with the picnic tables and benches surrounded by Autumn’s colors. My eye immediately caught the contrast of the black metal with the colorful trees.
I spied the silver metal of the gate at the edge of the park.
The above two images were taken with my brand-new Samsung S23 Ultra. The details in the distance are quite remarkable. A wonderful surprise!
In the House
Surprisingly, the color black plays a prominent role in my home decor. Last winter we finally finished the media center/dry bar in our family room.
Then there is the fun decorating I enjoy during the holidays, which coincidentally, officially begins with Halloween. There are some metallic items in these images.
I also added some fun seasonal decor to the dining room table.
Metallics
A few more metallic examples from around the house.
Black and White Photography
I truly admire folks who can photograph successfully in black and white. This first one was taken by my brother-in-law of my hubby lighting a cigar.
“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”
~ Samuel Fuller
I prefer color, but I can’t complain about a few of my own attempts.
Sometimes I edit images through various filters (I use the Painnt App) for some interesting effects.
“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.”
~ Jack Antonoff
Were you one of the lucky ones who saw the annular solar eclipse on Saturday morning? I love cosmic events and was disappointed to see a deep cloud cover that prevented anyone in our area from seeing the eclipse. The last total solar eclipse I saw was in August 2017, while we were spending a weekend at the Sacramento Delta. I caught the crescent sun shadows filtered through the trees on this windsurf sail.
Color Me Confounded
I would like to thank several of you who took the time to comment and send me e-mails regarding the issue with my Wordless Wednesday post last week. I was so happy to capture a bull moose with my lens and wanted to share the surprise with you all. Here is the post if you couldn’t view it.
The block editor moved the “saved” blocks I use each week, and when I searched for the subscribe block, I apparently chose an “upgrade subscription” block. If you are wondering, the saved blocks can be found under patterns, then My Patterns.
I also replaced the featured image with the same moose image in my post. I had used a moose from Pexels via WordPress for the featured image, but it kept disappearing. Another strange occurrence and I won’t bore you with the details. Frustrating as heck, and as you know, very few issues with WordPress are black and white these days.
Inspiring Photo Challenges This Week
Each week I find inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.
How To Participate in Sunday Stills Photo Challenge
The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
- I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.
This Week’s Featured Bloggers
Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their photos of black and metallic colors. I add these all week as new links are posted.
- YOUR BLOG’S NAME GOES HERE…
- The 59 Club
- Always Write
- Between the Lines
- Bushboys World
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tails
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- The Day After
- Deb’s World Image Shared in comments
- Easin’ Along Image shared in comments
- Flights of the Soul
- Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
- Graham’s Island
- Hugh’s Views and News
- Kamerapromenader
- Light Words
- NEW Mangus Khan
- Now At Home
- NEW In Primo Piano–Photos
- Quaint Revival
- Roberta Writes
- The Showers of Blessings
- Stevie Turner
- This is Another Story
- Travel With Me
- WillowDot
- Woolly Muses
- Working On Exploring
“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.”
~ Elliott Erwitt
I can’t wait to see how you interpret the various shades of black and metallic this week! Join me next week as we explore…PHOTOS FROM THE FUNNY PAGES (images that are humorous, happy mistakes, or other amusing shots). See an example of mine below:
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