Once again I end with a picture I did not start out with for my project picture.  There was a beautiful sunset again tonight and I was over in town just before it hit the horizon.  I intended to get another picture of the Rome Cable tower with the clouds and setting sun behind it.  I had captured a similar view early in my journey with photography and thought I could improve on it with my new knowledge.  I guess I have more knowledge to gain.

I just couldn’t get the pictures to look the way I wanted.  I was having a problem with noise due to the JPEG file format output by the camera.  I worked at it far longer than I probably should have but I was determined to get a better picture.  Eventually I turned to another picture to step away from my problem.

I had a picture I initially considered a throw away.  I snapped it while waiting for the sun to move into position.  I had no plans to process it but once I uploaded all the pictures to my computer there was a simplicity to it that I liked.  The picture was basically monochrome to start which made my processing choice fairly easy.

It was just a stack of truck tires behind a parked truck but I really liked the detail in each tire.  There was a lot of texture in all the elements of the picture and it was easy to make the whole scene ‘pop’.  I’m beginning to appreciate the possibilities of monochrome pictures.  I have been on a recent run of B&W processing but the images are turning out pretty good.