For me, black and white are the colors of photography.
The more I do street photography, the more I feel I am attached to classic photography. Classic, for me, means black and white with all shades of greyness. After all, almost 100% of the pictures you see on my blog, my Dear Friend, do not possess the full range of colors. Why is that? It is because, not only for me but also for most other photographers, monochrome photography is more artistic. Also, I heard information a few years ago that if colors do not take a leading role in your pictures, then there is a high probability that your photo will look better in monochrome. I follow this advice.
Every time I take a picture, I try to imagine how this photo would look in black and white.
Still, I must admit, I take all the images in color. The process of changing them into black-and-white magic occurs in Lightroom. Does it mean I do not have pictures where blue, green, yellow, or red are in a leading role? I have many such pictures. Still, I haven’t prepared the sets of pictures “Mazek in Color.” I believe it is only a matter of time before I do it. Still, for today, I glued myself to monochrome photography, and I believe that the longer I publish my photos in monochrome, the more the black and white style sticks with me.
For today (I wrote this text on the 3rd of June, 2025), I can say I have been blogging for almost eight years (I started doing it at the beginning of September 2017).
I think it is still too short a period of publishing my photos to dramatically prove I can take pictures where other colors take the lead. That’s why I stick to monochrome – the colors of photography. As for the future of monochrome photography, I believe it will continue to be a timeless and elegant form of artistic expression, and I hope to inspire more people to appreciate its beauty.
