Is Black and White Photography still Popular?

Lately, while seeing more and more beautiful color landscape photos, in the back of my mind, I kept thinking: "what is happening to black and white photography?" It seems as though with introduction of digital photography, and new color films, people are moving away from black and white, and towards color. This trend is especially true in nature and landscape photography. Troubling trend, it seems.

Black and White creates a different dimension in photography. It reminds us of the past. It reminds me of old manual equipment, the skill necessary to capture beautiful images, all the different filters, and the time which photographers took to produce that one remarkable photograph.

The lack of color is what makes these photographs so special. Subtle differences in tone are revealed through the many shades of gray. These same tones are lost, when photographed in color. Well, for all the people who still appreciate and enjoy Black and White, we promise to offer more photography either shot in B&W, or professionally printed in Black and White.

Changes to WorldonPaper.com

Visual appearance has been slightly altered across the site. While the changes are rather minor they will improve navigation and visual appeal of the site. Additional changes to the code across the whole site are being implemented gradually. These changes should improve overall registration, and indexing with Search engines, such as Google.

Some of the code changes were made to address article indexing in our Wiki. Now all articles in our Wiki system get indexed correctly. This change will assure that people submitting articles will receive proper credit from search engines.

New Article: Abstract Photography and its Selection

Of all the different genres of photography, Abstract must be the most interesting, and confusing at the same time. The word Abstract itself may mean a lot of things. By definition abstract photography is an aspect of photography that does not depict subject as they would appear in natural world. Learn more about how to judge Abstract Photography, and what to look for, when selecting an abstract photograph. Read Article.

New Article: How-to Select Mats and Frames

Because there are often questions and doubts about finding the right frame, and choosing a mat to match, or custom framing your works, we wrote an Article, which we hope will be helpful. We try to give you good ideas and things to avoid. Getting your photography matted is important, and we offered some more general advice, which we think will be a good starting point. Read Article.

New Article: Scrapbooking Step-By-Step

A few new very informative Articles have been added to our Wiki. If you ever considered starting your own scrapbook, but are not certain where to begin, this article may be a good starting point. It gives you tips and ideas and helps you get what you need to start. Read Article.

Two additional Articles related to scrapbooking have been added as well. They are concentrating on creating a scrapbook of your baby album. The Article is very detailed and offers a lot of insight. While this is not directly related to FIne Arts, all of these are related to preservation and organization of photography. Read Part 1 of the Article. Read Part 2 of this Article.

New Article: Correctly Storing Your Negatives And Slides

A new article has just been added to our Photography Wiki. Learn about correctly storing your valuable negatives and slides to protect them from the environment, and age. There are many storage options available, and this article descusses some of the more popular. Read the Article.

New Article: Tips For Taking The Best Wedding Day Photos Possible

A new article has just been added to our Photography Wiki. Get useful tips about Wedding Day photography from this article. There is plenty of useful information in it, especially if you are planning on getting married soon. Read the Article.

New Photos Added from Kenneth Aaron

Kenneth Aaron recently added new photography to the Gallery. Several intersting landscape photos are available. More photos from Kenneth are yet to come. See Ken Aaron's Photography in the Gallery.

First Newsletter Sent

Just two days ago, our first newlsetter was sent out informing subscribers of our new Article Mangement System based on WikiMedia's Wiki. Photographers were encouraged to contribute, if interested.

First article has already been added to the new system.