SOME SURPRISINGLY COLORLESS MOMENTS IN THE WOODS (again, because the post was muted an hour ago)

in #photography3 years ago

So ... since my post, the post that you'll see in its entirety in this post :D was muted in the Black and White community for some stupid, petty reasons, reasons that I can understand (well, just kind of, not really) but I can't approve, nor I can consider them in any other way but as product of shallow, stupid & petty reasoning ... I'm re - proposing the same post again, here on my blog ... because HIVE is my archive, and my portfolio, I want to have everything visible here. And now :D here comes the controversial post ...

SOME SURPRISINGLY COLORLESS MOMENTS IN THE WOODS

It was a very colorful day, I was in a very colorful state of mind ... but ...

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... but when I entered the woods ...

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... the colors somehow disappeared ...

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... flew into the nothingness ...

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... faded away ... faraway from this place ... from my eyes ...

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... or just turned into many shades of gray ...

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... who knows ... I surely don't ... but ...

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... anyway ... anyhow ...

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... this strange, unexpected and quite complete desaturation ...

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... gave me a nice new prospective on the world around me ...

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... in the absence of color ...

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... the shapes ... lines ... and similar elements ...

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... came in the center of my focus ...

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... and that ...

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... ended up to be a very enjoyable experience ...

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... I saw a snake hanging from the tree ...

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... like some scaly, reptilian climbing plant ...

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... I saw flowers ...

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... many kinds of flowers ...

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... and some cool, stylish heart - sheaped seeds ...

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... I mean, I saw much more ... I saw tons of cool stuff ... but I didn't photograph everything ...

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... it was just too much to photograph ... then I decided to go home ... I was hungry and slightly tired, you know ... and when I exited the forest ...

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... the colors returned ... to their ordinary places ... the sky was blue, the foliage was green ... and so on ...

As always in this rambling adventures on HIVE, the photographs are my work.

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Stupid is posting into a community that you don't even read the rules of ;)

Yeah, OK, I must admit that is not the most intelligent thing ... but I read the rules, and uploaded the post to see how important those rules are :D ... it's no fun with these petty rules that can't be stretched a bit.

Why would we stretch the rules? If we do that for one user, we would have to do that to other users as well. And then it stops being Black and white community, doesn't it?

I don't think it is so hard to understand "no colour images".

Nope ... if the post is more than 90 % black and white but just starts in color to tell a story, I wouldn't be afraid that the community will lose its identity. But that's not important. I'm not advocating the stretching of the rules. The community is like that, and it has all the right to be like that, of course.
I just get passionate about rules in these artsy stuff ... sometimes :D that's all ... I'm not glad if I offended someone ... but, the expression was running free :) it was late in the night ... I mean, after all, we all learned something... that I'm not a good match for this community ... and this community is not a good match for me ... and that's OK.

I just get passionate about rules in these artsy stuff

So you decided not to follow them, just to see...

It is OK to have a different view and disagree. But it is NOT OK to start calling names and offend people because you broke the rules and got pointed out. This only shows how serious you treat people that do try to run something around here.
Thanks for that!

Yes, in that I must agree - I apologize for that, for the offensive, inappropriate words. No jokes here, sincerely.

Wow! This is a pity, I do enjoy your work, @borjan...

I guess main point is: Rules are put there for a reason, or they wouldn't be called "rules" - maybe we can call them, "...if you like, you can do this... or that..." - BUT they are not, they are RULES. Means no stretching! (And they sound pretty serious about it...)

First, the Black and White community has this (check the page, right column):

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Second: ALL monochromes/monomad posts have the rules printed not once but TWICE, at the top and at the bottom of the posts - must be important, and serious... don't you think?! And the part that applies here is:

At least 50% of the submitted post, including the first image, needs to be black and white (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).

"First image". It wouldn't make sense if the feed in Black and White community has a thumbnail in full colour, would it? Think about it - am sure you understand. Maybe you could stretch your creativity to craft your post around a layout/story that starts with a black and white photo instead... hence keeping to the rules and keeping everyone happy. Cheers!

First of all, of course I understand your point and these simple rules. My opinion about them, is of course different, I think, ad example, that if the feed in the Black and White community had a thumbnail in full color from time to time but the rest of the post is pure monochrome :) it would be a nice and refreshing surprise.
But look, I'm not trying to change here anything. The rules are these, I don't care much about them, but I will surely not upload posts with colors anymore. It's ok, I understand how the community feels about rules and I will respect that of course.

I love the snake. I think that's the first snake I've seen here, at least the first one that is the absolute star of a picture. They are all great shots, but that is an amazing shot.

Absolutely agree. The snake photo could be the best wildlife photo on Hive.

:) Thanks. It's an old snake from 2013.

That snake aged well :))

:D

They must be a bunch of fanatical purists who muted you...☹️ They're worse than the Nazi Vegan Police...

:D Could be ... could be ... I mean, any black and white enthusiast should be able to swallow a bit of color, especially if it leads to a long monochromatic experience :) if not, it's a black and white fanatic ... and even that's ok, but is too extreme and not cool at all.

beautiful photos - your work was muted because of the two color photos in this set? I'd think they would take you that mute off, right? Hopefully, it goes away...your stuff is awesome in black and white.

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I had a good reason to re - publish the post, and the reason is written in the second post (which means in this post, at the beginning). This is not about spamming at all.