I don’t often work in black and white. It isn’t that I don’t like or appreciate it, but it just rarely occurs to me to either shoot or process in monochrome. After seeing so many striking monochrome images from other Fujifilm X-shooters in my Instagram feed, I decided that for a week, I would limit myself to only black and white to see what I could learn. Here are the results.

One year ago I was bored and in seach of a challenge. I felt that I needed to be a bit more purposeful with my photography and hone my skills in a more scientific manner. To my mind, I had the basic concepts of photography down and while I loved it, I felt the rut of a well-worn path developing. In order to break the complacency I decided that I needed a new challenge to keep me growing as a photographer.