You've all heard the expression made to prove a point; "It's right there in black and white" and your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to make your photographic point with a black & white image.

Several recent posts with B&W images and the comments thereto made me think that this would be a good topic to challenge your creativity and readjust your way of seeing without color. While the old masters, such as, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, and others, were limited by B&W film, their vision to use light, contrast, shadows, form, and subject content to create powerful images was limited only by their imagination.

Here are some samples of those masters' work:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/adams/

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/bresson.htm

http://www.edward-weston.com/edward_weston_natural.htm

Your challenge is not to try and emulate those masters but to use your own creativity and favorite subject matter to produce images in your own style. Whether your camera has the capability to shoot in B&W or you convert color images don't matter so long as the submitted image is black & white.

No sepia, infra-red, or other monochromes, just pure B&W with shades of grey, of course.

The general guidelines are located here and cover most aspects of the challenge.

https://pbase.com/otfchallenge/challenge_rules_guidelines

Please give your submission a title, the more creative, the better. All entries must have a title. The Challenge is open to all members of the Olympus Talk Forum who joined before the beginning of the Challenge period and the photos must be taken with an Olympus digital or DSLR camera. The Host has elected not to submit an entry nor to participate in the voting.

Challenge entries (limit 1 per member) must be taken during the challenge period starting Monday, September 1, 2008 and ending at 10:00 PM EDT on Monday, September 15, 2008.

Check your time zone. The Host is in this one:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=843

Everyone is encouraged to submit up to two (2) images for the Exhibition Gallery. Exhibition photos DO NOT need to be from an Olympus camera.

Challenge entries and Exhibition Gallery submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address: rivance@comcast(dot)net ((substitute . for (dot)). The submissions should be sized to no more than 800 pixels on the longest side and under 200 kb.

Please use the word “Challenge” or “Exhibition” in the subject heading.

Be sure to include your Olympus Talk Forum name and a title for your images. Also, send the photo as an attachment as some e-mail programs strip the EXIF data from embedded images. Images without an EXIF intact will not be accepted.