Mosaic Monday: A Black and White Beach

The Photographers of Etsy celebrate the peace and quiet of a black and white beach.

1. Shoreline – gigileonard
2. Beach Baby Notecard – ANJacobsen
3. An Empty Beach – ExquisiteImage
4. First Beach Visit – ashleydnichols
5. Set of Three – attheendoftheday
6. Chorreanado 1 – evesimone
7. Pier (2) – JoannBristol
8. Boys on the Beach – MadrinPhotography
9. Arcadia Wind – pfeifferphotos
10. Sisters – AmomentAMemory28
11. Black and White Beach – Aztek721
12. Nassau1 – Lightleak

May your week be peaceful.

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Mosaic Mondays are compiled by Patti Meyer. Patti is an award winning graphic artist who resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. See her photography collection at her shop right here.

How I Did It

Name: Ian Parry
Title: Hide and Seek
Location: a gothic graveyard in the UK countryside
How I did it: I was playing with an idea of ghostly images in a churchyard inspired by the Bruce Willis film "The Sixth Sense." My little boy has that blonde "midwich cuckoo" look, so I took him to a churchyard in Derbyshire while on holiday and got him to run around. I love spinning the camera off its axis, filling the frame in different ways. I used my Nikon D1X with a long lens f4 (I think), deliberately focusing on the foreground to make him softer and adding to the mystery, and ramped up the contrast in PhotoShop. There is a strange white blur on his shoulder, but I really don't how I got that. Spooky, huh!

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How I Did It is compiled by Susannah Tucker. Susannah is a self-taught photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been fascinated with photography since she was a young girl, and enjoys experimenting with techniques, layers and textures. View the collection in her shop here.

Please contact Susannah if you would like to participate in a future How I Did It feature.