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Mono Monday-Hidden Minor

Title-Hidden Minor

It’s amazing the things you find just wandering around, like this beat up old morris Minor traveller. Walking up one of the side streets on the outskirts of my town I stumbled across a makeshift car parking area, initially all I saw were a few cars of the local residents, however on closer inspection I noticed an old Jag and a couple of Morris Minors. The one you see here was almost totally obscured by the weeds and bushes that surrounded it. I loved the way you can just see the grill and plate with the rest being totally covered. Making this shot mono adds a sense of forlornness.

Sometimes you don’t need  to go far to find hidden treasures.

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Mono Monday-The Haunted Manor

Title-The Haunted Manor

Just a quick post today as I’ve been busy with other things, however I wasn’t going to miss posting another image for Mono Monday. This picture has been sitting on my Hard drive for some time but not seen by anyone until now.

Due to the dilapidated nature of the building I thought that applying a selenium tone would give it a slightly spooky feel.

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Mono Monday-‘You’re not welcome’

Title-‘You’re not welcome’

This is a slight reworking of an older photo from a couple of years ago, taken at the dangerously derelict Lillesden school for girls. Originally it was a colour photo to which I added a mono layer to grunge it up a bit, the end result looking very muted and dirty. For this version all I did was to take that photo and convert it to mono, which I did using one of the free presets from onOne’s PerfectPresets plugin for Lightroom.

I quite like breathing a new bit of life into older pictures as they tend to get pushed to the back and forgotten about on sites such as Flickr.

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Mono Monday-The lonely chair

Hi all, just a short post from me today.

This past week has been quite hectic,  being both mine and my wife’s mother’s 60th birthday. A  few things including blogging has had to take a bit of a back seat, hence my reason for choosing to post this shot of an old chair in a derelict corridor.

That’s it from me for now, I hope to get the next post up within the next few days. Until then, happy shooting.