Black and white photography takes a different kind of eye when you are the photographer than “regular” photography does.

You must train your eye to shut out information of color dominance and just see the different values of color around you.  Colors that appear dull when you are looking primarily at their hue can become vibrant and alive when you are looking only at their value.  Similarly, brilliant colors that dominate a scene may become almost obscure when you aren’t looking at their hue at all.

Kari began her passion  for nature photography just photographing in black and white, and although she doesn’t shoot nearly as much black and white as she used to, she still loves its unique and luminous quality.  Kari believes that black and white photography still makes a major contribution to the fine art photography world.  Please enjoy these black and white portraits, landscapes, close-ups, and abstracts.