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Desertscapes
Deserts are always full of rewarding motives for B&W photographers. Bizarre shapes, the clear air with very little mist and the beautiful contrasts of light and shade in the early morning or in the evening create a unique atmosphere.
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Cityscapes
As a photographer, you can approach city motives in different ways: with architecture photography, with people photography, as a reporter - or with landscape photography. Seeing cities through the eye of a landscape photographer means: seeing the city as a whole, taking into account the effects of daylight and weather conditions.
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Night
For night photography you have to focus usually on cityscapes where you find sufficient artifical light sources. The nightlight conditions are reversed which creates the unusual atmosphere: a lighted foreground with details against the dark background of the night.
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Bad weather
For B&W photography, bad weather is good weather. Approaching bad weather conditions, like approaching thunderstorms or rain showers, are amongst my favourite motives. You have to work fast under these conditions - the fascinating transition phase where the dark clouds mix in contrast with the sunlight will last only minutes.
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Clouds & Sky
The sky and the clouds are always part of a landscape and create motives and contrasts of their own. Under certain conditions, for instance in flatlands, the sky and clouds become a more important motive for the landscape photographer than the landscape itself.
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Water
Water will always attract photographers. In a landscape it will create reflections and additional contrasts of light and shade, or create dynamics in an otherwise static environment.
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Mountains
Most landscape photographers will prefer the mountains over the flatlands. Mountains create more shapes and contrasts of light and shade than the flatlands, and this is what black & white photography is mostly about.
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