Black and White version of Great Egret Images

Several decades ago, I had a darkroom and made a lot of black and white prints of photos taken with a Pentax film camera. Now, when sorting images taken with a digital camera, I sometimes think “this image would look better in black and white.” But I have never taken the time to process these images in black and white rather than color. I’ve been experimenting with black and white processing recently and some of the results are shown below.

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.