There was a certain magic in that, and ever since, the romance associated with the 'simple' art of Black and White has lingered into our digital age.
There was a time when Black and White was the only option photographers had. Some of us started out shooting on Black and White film and can still remember spending hours in darkrooms painstakingly developing our images. There was a certain magic in that, and ever since, the romance associated with the 'simple' art of Black and White has lingered into our digital age. In the face of all our efforts to carefully tweak colours in post production and waking early to capture that warm glow of morning light, sometimes a good Black and White image can capture that which remains elusive in even the most vibrant of colour images.