Black & White.
"This isn't about the colour at all. It's about the light, the shape and the texture."
This collection of black and white photographs offers a different perspective on a variety of subjects. By removing colour, attention is drawn to light, shadow, texture and form—revealing details that can easily be overlooked. Ironically, I often find a good black and white photograph while looking at a scene in full colour.
For me, black and white photography creates mood and emotion. It invites us to look more deeply, searching for character, expression and the story within the image rather than being distracted by colour.
Trees are among my favourite subjects. Their shapes, textures and timeless presence seem especially suited to black and white, where every branch, scar and silhouette becomes part of the photograph's story.
Sheet Web with frosty dew drops reveals the soft delicate beauty of a complex network of the strands of the web
Wool shed on Braeside Station, Ida Valley, Central Otago Historic station buildings photographed prior to the filming of The Power of the Dog (2021), which brought international attention to this remarkable Central Otago landscape.
Oak at Kimberly road The power lines and fences have been removed as the author like the shape of the tree
Wheat field Seed head in Paddock behind 224 Horndon Darfield
Trees are remarkable subjects in landscape photography. When transformed into Black and White they present different details, tones, and textures
Port Levy Pass Gnarled Old Tototra battered by the wind north and south
Sunflower in B&W
Little Black cormorant
Fiordland mountains
Waikuku Sentinel
Bumble in blossom
Dipping the tips
Fall Leaves are gone
Lyttleton Harbor
Otematata Station Otago Blacksmith wall left as it was the last day it was used
Castle Hill Area
Tool Shed Gold Nugget Historical Mine
Wagon Wheel on the Otematata Station
Willow wisp in water at Lake Pearson
Cramner Square
Dandelion
Lone tree south of Kaikoura , looking from the sea at South Bay
Waikuku Mist Cottonwood standing guard
Eglington Valley West Walk
Web dew St Anne's Lagoon Cheviot North Canterbury
The coast of Shadow South Bay Kaikoura
Hamiltons Cemetery, Maniototo Hamiltons Cemetery is the principal reminder of the once-thriving gold mining town of Hamiltons, established after gold was discovered on Captain Hamilton's run in 1863. At the height of the gold rush the settlement boasted around 4,000 residents, some 25 hotels, and 40 stores, but by the late 1870s most miners had departed. Today, the restored cemetery, its distinctive dry-stone wall, stands almost the slopes of the Rock and Pillar Range, overlooking the Maniototo Plain.