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BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y4-06
Posted on June 18, 2018
I usually post castles, churches and ruins for this challenge, but this time I thought it would be cool to see Traces of the Past in nature. After all traces of the past are all around us.
Here is an example of a remnant of one of many volcanic eruptions on Tenerife Island.
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What traces of the past have you seen lately? Take your time posting your entries and have fun!
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y2-01
Posted on March 26, 2018
I almost let March go by without Black & White Sunday, and with a shorter weekend I only managed to post it today. Here’s a challenge which invites you to post the same image in colour and black and white. I call it “After and Before” and it is a recurrent event, the first one this year.
after
before
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Above you can see a wonderful piece of street art from my neighbourhood. I liked it so much that I wanted to see what it would look like in monochrome.
Now, if you would like to participate in this challenge, all you have to do is to show the same image both in colour and black and white. You can do any theme or subject that you like. Please, take your time and have fun. Wishing you all a great week!
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y4-02
Posted on February 25, 2018
This is the only Black & White Sunday this month, and I decided that it should be Traces of the Past. Last summer I was lucky to visit, if only briefly, beautiful Rosslyn Chapel located in the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland. Once a place of Catholic worship, after the Scottish Reformation, Roman Catholic worship in the chapel was brought to an end, and the chapel was closed to public worship until 1861, when it was opened again as a place of worship according to the rites of the Scottish Episcopal Church, a member church of the Anglican Communion.
Since the 1980’s the chapel has been a subject of many speculative theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its film adaptation. Today it is a privately owned working church where services are held on Sundays and weddings and baptisms are reserved for the members of the Rosslyn Chapel congregation. Read more…
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I hope you will enjoy this theme again. Your traces of the past don’t have to include old architecture or planetary famous sites; I would be very glad to see your alternative take on the theme – maybe some traces from your own past…
Don’t need to rush with your submissions…. The deadline is in two weeks.
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: STILL LIFE
Posted on January 14, 2018
It’s winter where I am, and with uncomfortably cold and wet weather all I can think of in terms of creativity are some “studio” shots. Here’s an example of low-key still life in black and white. Your theme for this week’s Black and White Sunday is still life – it does not have to bee low-key of course. I hope that you will have fun answering this prompt.
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BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TEXTURE
Posted on December 3, 2017
Sad looking or maybe just resignated to a life in a few square meters; not easy to tell when looking at this captivated gibbon’s face.
The texture of his hair and skin is fascinating, so much so that I decided to feature him for today’s photo theme TEXTURE.
Maybe you’d like to join me for this challenge and show your examples of texture in black and white. The deadline this time is next Saturday. 
©2015 PAULA BORKOVIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
**** The next Black & White Sunday will be on 17 December with the theme Traces of the Past, and there will be one more on the last day of this year with the theme After and Before.
*** The music in this post is a wonderful example of different textures too 🙂
Please have a look at these great examples of TEXTURE:
https://tishfarrell.com/2017/12/03/frosted-bracken-black-white-sunday/
https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/we-call-them-plated-toads/
https://travelwithintent.com/2017/12/03/arles-france-texture-dog-night-photography/
https://robert20359.wordpress.com/2017/12/02/black-white-sunday-texture/
https://teepee12.com/2017/12/03/black-white-sunday-texture-boots/
https://suejudd.com/2017/12/03/black-and-white-sunday-texture/
https://iballrtw.com/2017/12/03/greek-horse-pin-art/
https://dailymusing57.com/2017/12/03/black-white-sunday-texture-2
https://bushboy.blog/2017/12/04/black-and-white-sunday-texture/
https://lucidgypsy.com/2017/12/05/black-and-white-sunday-5
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: SHAPE
Posted on October 15, 2017
It’s been a while since I posted a Black & White Sunday. This time the theme is SHAPE. Shape is a great theme for any photo challenge, but I think it lends itself best for a monochrome interpretation. You have a week to respond. The next B&W Sunday will be in two week’s time with combined “after and before” theme (one shot in colour and black and white). Wishing you all a peaceful Sunday!
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P.S. Thank you all for your inspiring entries. Please have a look at the pingbacks bellow to see them all.
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y1-08
Posted on September 24, 2017
Regular visitors to my blog know that once a month on a Sunday I post a combined photo challenge theme for Black&White Sunday. It is called AFTER and BEFORE and it invites you to post the same image both in black and white and in colour. The topic and subject are entirely arbitrary. The only condition is that you post an image captured in colour and that you turn it monochrome in post processing. I enjoy this little exercise which permits me to see the same scene through colour and without it, and I hope that you will enjoy doing the same.
after
before
©2017 PAULA BORKOVIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
As of recently my Black&White Sunday has become a fortnight event which means that I am challenging you in monochrome photography every other Sunday. For today’s theme you have two weeks’ deadline. Wishing you a very happy week ahead and see you on Thursday with a new special theme (in colour).
NOTE: THIS IS A SCHEDULED POST. I HURT MY HAND THIS WEEKEND AND WILL BE SLOW IN VIEWING AND REPLYING ON YOUR POSTS. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING.
UPDATE on 10 October: I am back from my sick leave, and visiting your blogs. Please find links to others’ entries in the comments section. It seems redundant to post links to all of your entries in this post, while they are bellow anyway. There are so many posts to see and blogs to visit, and time is precious. Thank you all so much for your great entries. I really enjoyed seeing all of your interpretations.
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: CEILING
Posted on September 10, 2017
Recently, Black and White Sunday has turned into a fortnight event which means that there will be no more than two of such events per month. Today’s theme for this photo challenge in black and white is “ceiling”. The deadline for your entries is 23 September.
The bellow photo shows ceiling of Jeronimo’s monastery in Lisbon.
©2015 PAULA BORKOVIC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Please have a look at the entries to the challenge:
https://dailymusing57.com/2017/09/10/black-white-sunday-ceiling/
https://netdancer.com/2017/09/10/black-and-white-sunday-ceiling/
https://beyondthebrushphotography.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/perspective-abstract/
https://suejudd.com/2017/09/10/black-white-sunday-ceiling/
https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/home-is-were-the-ceiling-is/
https://jmeyersforeman.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/bath-abbey-bath-england/
https://lucidgypsy.com/2017/09/11/celsus-ceiling/
https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/petra-jordan
https://unavistadisanfermo.wordpress.com/2017/09/11/ceilings/
https://balance440.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/black-white-sunday-ceiling/
https://bushboy.blog/2017/09/13/black-white-sunday-ceiling
https://teepee12.com/2017/09/14/from-the-top-ceilings-black-white-sunday
https://nwatkins23.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/black-white-sunday-photo-challenge-ceiling/
https://iballrtw.com/2017/09/18/refectory-ceiling-of-the-mosteiro-dos-jeronimos/
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y1-07
Posted on August 27, 2017
Regular visitors to my blog know that once a month on a Sunday I post a combined photo challenge theme for Black&White Sunday. It is called AFTER and BEFORE and it invites you to post the same image both in black and white and in colour. The topic and subject are entirely arbitrary. The only condition is that you post an image captured in colour and that you turn it monochrome in post processing. I enjoy this little exercise which permits me to see the same scene through colour and without it, and I hope that you will enjoy doing the same.
before
©Paula Borkovic
As of today my Black&White Sunday is turning into a fortnight event which means that I will be challenging you in monochrome photography every other Sunday. One Black and White Sunday per month will have a permanent theme: After and Before and the other Sunday will be theme something different every month.
I hope you will still going to participate enthusiastically despite of these changes :).
Please have a look at the entries to this post:
https://teepee12.com/2017/08/27/after-with-before-on-a-black-white-sunday/
https://suejudd.com/2017/08/27/black-and-white-sunday-after-and-before/
https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/9270/
https://beyondthebrushphotography.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/walking-the-streets8/
https://robert20359.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-hamburgs-natur/
https://ameditativejourney.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-y1-07/
https://photogate.ca/2017/08/27/black-and-white-sunday-before-and-after/
https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/black-and-white-sunday-after-and-before
https://unavistadisanfermo.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/before-after/
https://alipatoblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/chicken-coop-doors-for-mundane-monday-124-and-paulas-black-white-sunday/
https://zombieflamingoes.com/2017/08/28/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-y1-07/
https://bushboy.blog/2017/08/29/black-and-white-sunday-before-and-after-4/
https://mywordwall.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/bliss-a-quadrille/
https://tishfarrell.com/2017/08/29/the-weather-on-the-edge-black-white-sunday/
https://ceenphotography.com/2017/08/29/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-august/
https://dailymusing57.com/2017/08/29/black-white-sunday-after-before-7/
https://travelwithintent.com/2017/08/30/beneath-my-bedroom-window/
https://3rsofretirement.com/2017/08/31/black-white-sunday-after-and-before-2/
https://weaklythoughts.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/color-or-monochrome/
https://environmentalsciencewater.blog/2017/08/31/black-white-sunday-after-and-before/
https://wordandimagecollages.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/before-and-after/
https://lessywannagohome.blogspot.hr/2017/09/b-sunday.html
https://travelwithintent.com/2017/09/08/refreshment-zone/
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: TRACES OF THE PAST Y3-08
Posted on August 20, 2017
I happened to be in Newcastle upon Tyne on an important date for Britain, and was very happy to capture some of the celebratory atmosphere in the streets. As is often the case in my pictures, I applied selective colouring cause it just felt right.
Black Gate with the Cathedral
©Paula Borkovic
This is Traces of the Past recurrent photo challenge theme. This month you are invited to post in black and white anything that you see as belonging to the past (near or far), pretty or not so pretty. You have a week to respond.
I’d like to thank all participants for their wonderful entries. Please check out their links:
https://teepee12.com/2017/08/20/faded-glory
https://travelwithintent.com/2017/08/20/a-gory-trace-of-the-past/
https://suejudd.com/2017/08/20/traces-of-the-past-y3-08/
https://3rsofretirement.com/2017/08/20/bw-sunday-traces-of-the-past-38/
https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/black-and-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past-3/
https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/blackwhite-sunday-traces-of-the-past/
https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/past-and-present/
https://robert20359.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/black-white-sunday-trace-of-the-past/
https://balance440.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past-y3-08/
https://rkarkera.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past/
https://dailymusing57.com/2017/08/21/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past-7/
https://balance440.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past-y3-08/
https://bushboy.blog/2017/08/22/black-white-sunday-traces-of-the-past
https://restlessjo.me/2017/08/24/cornered-at-stokesay
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: STRUCTURE
Posted on August 13, 2017
The quaint looking field structure known as kazun in Istria has been widely used in the past once as a dwelling, but most commonly as a shelter, and later on for storing agricultural tools. The changed way of life gradually made them obsolete, but their cultural and historical value is greater than it may at first appear. Most of the examples that can be seen today date back to the 18th – mid 20th century like this one that I saw in the South-West Istria. The doors on kazun are normally smaller than man’s size and usually face West. The inner diameter ranges between 1.5m-3m and the height from 1.60 to 2m.
Excerpt from a research conducted by the Institute for Historical and Social Sciences in Rijeka sheds light on the historical importance of these structures:
“…The heritage value of kazun is great; when glancing over the map of the widespread density of kazuns, it can be noticed that they are most commonly found in the South-West Istria (especially around Vodnjan), while they are scarcely found in the middle and North-West Istria. Similar round ground-planned edifices are known under different names (bunje etc.) in the middle and South Dalmatia. In Europe, this type of drywall building can be found all over Mediterranean, all the way to the British Isles and Scandinavia up North. This geographical distribution, architectural structuring and archaeological findings suggest that the origin of this type of round ground-planned edifice could be found in the dwellings and burial sites of Paleo-Mediterranean period. However, the abundance of available stone and the strong development of agriculture were basis for survival and spreading of this type of building in different European areas, as well as the formation of original examples of round stone edifices which had the role of shelters in the field. Lately, kažuns, as characteristic examples of traditional building in Istria, have had a special role when one is identifying and interpreting ethno-cultural contents.” (author: Tihana Stepinac Fabijanic)
It’s been a few weeks since the last Black & White Sunday, and I am happy that I can challenge you again with my monochrome photo challenge. Today’s theme is STRUCTURE. In my example it is a building, but considering so many possible meanings of the word, I expect to see many different entries from you. As usually, you have a week to respond. Hope you’ll have fun.
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