Good Old Black-and-White

I have been dismayed at the rapid death of film photography.   Black-and-white film in particular gives a unique look and feel to our reality and I hate to loose it.    Now the film hobbyists are a dying breed, I'm convinced we should keep it's fires alive.  And although wags now say the black-and-white photographs make us look old, I'm convinced they can still make us look uniquely good.  That's why I still take such pictures, particularly of people.  Here are recent examples:

This was a gathering at my cousin Nan's house last weekend where she showed the new kitchen in her passive solar house (not pictured).

The absence of color and the prominence of gray tones actually helps with portraits.  This is my cousin Win.

Landscapes can profit from a lack of color - this is what the woods and the wetland beyond look like.

These are my cousins Nan and Barb.  These were taken with a 40+ year old Bronica s2a 6 x 6 medium format camera with a superb lens.  And scanning negatives this big, a huge file results.  With quality antique equipment, this kind of film photography - in this case coupled with the digital - is hard to beat.