by btharp | Dec 20, 2017 | America, Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, USA
Day 9 – A celebration of Nature’s own visual design, – her textures, patterns, shapes and forms that show up in so many ways! Revel in the...
by btharp | Oct 5, 2017 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Europe, photographs, travel photography
There are so many titles for a picture like this – ‘persistence’ being one of them. I loved the overlapping shapes and the shades of white/gray, and this little tree was just the perfect focal point to have in there. It may be planted in a pot on a...
by btharp | Mar 2, 2017 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography
The final edits for my new book, “Expressive Nature Photography” are finished, and this ‘baby’ didn’t make it! Hard to accept, as we all love our children, right?! But you just can’t fit all your ‘babies’ into one book,...
by btharp | Oct 12, 2016 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, photography, Street Photography
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should convert our color images to black and white. Not every picture works as a straight conversiosn, that’s for sure. With my ages-old training and development as a photographer being in black-and-white, I learned to...
by btharp | Jun 3, 2016 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, road trip
Mid-April provided some very interesting light and clouds in central Utah this year. I had been to speak at the Moab Photography Symposium, and had to drive to Salt Lake to leave my car and fly to northeast Ohio to teach a workshop before rejoining my car and...
by btharp | Sep 2, 2015 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, Landscape Photography, Namibia, nature photography
I love geology, and when I travel to places with weird rock formations, I get excited. Nature’s processes to shape our world never cease to amaze me. I’m also amazed at the transformation an image can have, when it’s converted to monochrome. The...