Rollers on a Townsend T-51 T-Head for a Ryobi printing press, in black and white.

The T-Head is mounted on a swing away arm. It is mounted on a single color printing press. When placed in position, it lets the printing press print two colors at a time. When done, the unit unmounts and swings out of the way so to allow normal single color printing.

Does everything look more interesting in black & white?

I had the tomato plant that produced these tomatoes for three years. Sadly, it is no longer with us. (Died earlier this year.)

But its memory will live on in glorious black & white imagery! (Color too.)

You may remember this image of Little Too from a couple weeks ago.

I thought it might be interesting to see what it would look like in black & white.

This–or rather the original color version (one of them)–is for an eventual article on one of my other sites.

Here it is, converted to black & white, blurred slightly and then film grain added in Photoshop to make it look like a photo you might have seen in an old nature book.

The first photo I post on this blog was looking up at a maple tree.

This is the same maple tree four years later. This time, I was taking images to make a 3D shot. The 3D view looks pretty good, but this is just a 2D view and converted to black & white.

I like this view of trees. It’s interesting. When taking the photo, you’re looking up toward the sky, toward the very top of the tree to take the shot. You can feel so small. But, when looking at the finished photo, are you looking up, or could you walk straight across the trunk?

Baby birds from earlier this summer.

Converted to black and white, tinted with a sepia tone and then a film grain added in Photoshop for an aged appearance.

Cloud shots are always among the most difficult.

There’s a reason I took the photo… Either there was something interesting flying around, like a plane or bird or a flock of birds, or there was an interesting cloud formation.

Sometimes, I just take pictures of the sky so I have a generic sky background to use when I need it.

But, sometimes things don’t show up. Birds and planes get lost, or cloud formations just don’t show up in the final picture like they looked in the sky.

So, then, months later when I look at the picture, I cannot figure out what it was I was trying to get a shot of.

This is one of those pictures.

Taken this past summer.

And, no, I would not eat it.

Congratulations! You are now about a quarter of the way through our lesson plan.

Today’s lesson is #892.

At this point, you should have realized that blogging can be hard work.

It can be fun, but, for the most part, those days are long gone.

Now, it’s just work.

And you may start to even hate it.

And you may not care anymore.

We’ll discuss how to deal with those issues in Lesson #893, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

So, anyway, that’s the lesson.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

By this point, you are an advanced blogger.

That means, you are no longer in need of these lessons.

Probably.

However, lesson #349 is that you always have something to learn.

More on that in lesson #350.

For now, realize you need to learn something more.

You’ll never stop learning!

Or, you shouldn’t.

But then I’m giving away too much about lesson #350.

Thus, lesson #349 so endeth.