The beauty of black & white photography

I have always loved film and black and white photography. Digital is wonderful, it's much less expensive, but it just isn't the same. Yes you can do things much faster, produce more with greater ease. But you can't replace the darkroom, the smell of developer, the grain of film and every little part of the process.

A few years back I was surfing around the internet and I stumbled across this photographer. For the life of me I can't remember his name. I just remember that he was self taught, and worked with black & white film. His photos were beautiful. He had a wonderful use of high contrast, and while his photographs we not "technically" perfect, they portrayed emotion and beauty. To me that is what photography should be about, emotion and personality. The technical aspects while important should not be more important than the idea, the feeling, or the message of the photograph.

Here is my small tribute to his passion, as well as mine. His photos made me fall in love with black & white all over again and remember how much I love high contrast.
I do mostly color photography but once a year I find myself going back to black and white, playing with contrast. Finding the beauty of what photography can be in simple terms. Trying to create that magic that film gives, that something special and different from digital. 

I will always morn the fact that I have no idea how to find his page or that blog post again. I would love more than anything to share his work with you, in hopes of inspiring others the way he inspired me.

Revival Coming soon!

I am currently working on reviving this blog and making regular posts. Nothing crazy or anything, just once a month or so. I would LOVE to post more but I have a very demanding full time job outside of photography.
If there is anything you would like to read about, know about etc just send me an email and I will put it on my list of things to write.
This may not be the busiest or most updated photography blog around but I promise I won't post anything I feel is half-hearted or just "whatever I want to update."

I will be posting anything and everything image related. If it has anything to do with photography and photography products, sessions, ads, campaigns, book covers, prop tutorials, conceptual photography, other photographers and so on, it will eventually make it's way here.

GreenLeafPhotos.Com Website has gone live!

Finally I found the domain name I can be happy with and a web host I can afford that offers everything I have been looking for.
Please visit Greenleafphotos.com
I am so happy with my logos and graphics I made for it. Even the little fav icon. :D I am very excited about it! I am working on updating everything and making sure everything looks perfect for you.

New website

I finally got up and created a website that was all about the photos and created a gallery dominated site to show my photography in a way that is easy to find the kind and style you are looking for.
Green Leaf Photography

Senior out takes

Just thought I’d share a few out takes of two wonderful high school seniors I’ve had the pleasure of photographing.

Published!

GLP has been published in an online restaurant guide!
This photo, (My photo!) is the first of 8 photos (each by a different photographers) that can been seen on the San Diego Hard Rock Cafe page on Schmap.com

Click Here to see it!

It’s nothing big or super amazing but it’s a small step. A step is a step and it's really neat to see!

Hello photography lovers!

Welcome to Green Leaf Photography’s official blog! I’ll post updates and news here and even some photos from shoots.

 I know it has been a very long time. Blogging has never been my strong suit. I still attempt to try. Who knows maybe someone will find this blog and find inspiration or a bit of useful something or other.

That said, I will rarely if ever talk about the the technical details of photography, there is so much more to it than that and the equipment isn’t as important as the intent and vision you have when doing photography. It’s so much more than f-stops, shutter speeds, lenses, lights used, etc. You don’t need the best/most expensive equipment to get great photos, you need a love of photography and the ability to use what you have around you. While the technical aspect is still important, that is not the part of this art that I am passionate about.