I don’t often work in black and white since I feel color is such an integral part of our world, but sometimes, when a scene is otherwise flat and lifeless and color doesn’t define the image, I’ll try a conversion to monochrome just to see how it looks. Occasionally, as in this case, the result is a new perspective on the subject that works better than color.

In this image, a winter sky and leafless foliage cast a uniform grey light over a gradually thawing frozen lake. The revealed water has become a mirror whose reflections merge seamlessly with those inside the waterlogged canoe.

For me, black-and-white seems to better capture that end-of-winter feeling which sees the first signs of victory in the battle against the frost before the real arrival of spring.

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This is my featured image for March. Hope you like it!