04 Aug 2025 Weekly Series Monochrome Monday

Monochrome Monday Driving Rain

It's Monday again and I'm trying to continue the practice on monochrome images in my Weekly Series called Monochrome.

Down My Driveway in the Rain (view full res)

It's Monday again and I'm trying to continue the practice on monochrome images in my Weekly Series called Monochrome Monday with some photos I took over the weekend during a late afternoon thunderstorm.

Fog and rain are two of my favorite times to take photos. I love capturing an image that has something in it that isn't just the standard fare, at least when it comes to weather. Adverse or non-standard conditions allow you to use the weather as part of your subject. It adds to the value of a photograph to "create more questions than answers" by obscuring parts of the scene.

On this particular day the sky opened up with super high contrast brights and shadows, pouring in some places, dry in others. Since we live way out in a rural area with no traffic, sometimes you can just stop in the middle of the road and take a photo, which I did on a few occasions here.

Self Portrait in the Car Mirror (view full res)

Local County Feed and Seed (view full res)

Small County Road in Light Rain — Into the Sun in Light Rain (view full res)

House on the Hill in the Rain (view full res)

Small County Roads in the Rain (view full res)

For the curious, all the images in this post were taken with my Nikon Zf and the 40mm f/2 SE lens. They were all shot in the B&W mode switch. Not much was done to them in post, I'm not all that great an editor with monochrome post-processing so I don't do much to the raw files.