Sentry

Even though you can make a color picture look black and white, I was looking for some stimulus to my creativity.  So, I was taking pictures with the black and white "creative" effects mode of my NEX-7 camera.  This displays everything through the viewfinder as BW.  As it helped me envision the outcome I was accepting that the color would be lost.  However, since I was taking the pictures in RAW, and even though the pictures were showing in BW on the camera review, they were retained in color.  When I loaded them into Lightroom I converted them right back into BW, except for this series of the signman.  The BW version was interesting, but this is where having the option of keeping the color helped out.  

Sentry 

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There are vintage signs all over New York City.  My favorites are the ones that are painted on brick.  

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