4 of 5 of the #blackandwhitechallenge

Well I suppose they don’t call it a challenge for nothing. A lot of images I thought would work well in black and white simply just don’t work, and there’s no point in forcing the issue. So I dug deep into the archives and found one of my favorite black and white images from Mt. Etna, Sicily. It was the middle of the winter, very cold, and there was so much snow on the roads I wasn’t entirely sure if our car would make it up to base camp. We ended up making it and I looked up and saw this beautiful picture of 3 people hiking in perfect formation on a ridge line towards the summit of Mt. Etna, and the rest is history. This is one of my all time favorite images that I’ve ever captured, for so many reasons.

I’m breaking the rules and nominating both @miahklein and @waterproject for the black and white challenge. I owe a lot of thanks to Miah for his guidance and for helping me along the way when I decided that I wanted to pursue photography professionally. I wouldn’t be where I am today had it not of been for people like Miah. I’ve since passed on some of that knowledge to @waterproject, who is part of the next generation of up and coming photographers

#payitforward