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title: B&W
date: 2007-12-09
tags: ["Photos"]
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[![Fishing off the rocks](http://blogs.confusticate.com/jeremy/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bw_jetty_fishing.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/confusticate/2098059964/ "Untitled by Jeremy Beker, on Flickr")

Black and white photography is something new to me.  Those with more official training in photography usually start shooting only black and white and I think that I see why.  It is the same as working with a prime lens in that it removes a variable from the equation of taking a good shot.  Rather than having a multitude of variables, I am forced down to just focus, aperture and exposure.  That leaves more of the brain able to concentrate on framing the shot.

I don't think I will start shooting exclusively black and white to practice, but as we exit fall and enter winter, there are not very many colors to speak of and I think it will allow me to explore other aspects of my picture taking.

A few more pictures from the same set are on my flickr page.  I didn't make a set, so it is probably easiest to click on the one above and just go backwards and forwards.