Favorite Photos of 2023

Two thousand and twenty-three was both an interesting and challenging year. I had committed myself to only use a black and white camera for twelve months starting in October of 2022. However I still used my iPhone now and then when a camera was not available or when a color image was called for. 

By focusing on black & white, or monochrome images, I forced myself to improve my skills in seeing shapes, lines, forms and texture. All of which are builkding blocks for making a better, stronger image.

In all, am satisfied with the photos captured and the improvements made in 2023.

Now lets see the results, start with a few color images.

 

Only two photos in the final selection had no people in them. Of late, I tend to photograph people I encountered on the street or at some event. Many strangers will posed for me if asked in a polite way, and others were captured without their knowledge when an opportunity presented itself. Now and then again I'll photograph a landscape or create a travel photo, such as...

 Old Wooden Pier

Seal Beach, CA

and then it's back to... people.

Hempstead Cowboy

Texas

Mexican Vaquero

Hempstead, TX

F. Fellini Family Matriarch

Spain

Young and Old

Valladolid, Spain

Five thirty AM, where is my choir?

Hempstead, TX

Political Street Demonstration

Plaza Major, Spain

Five O'clock somewhere... Street Cafe

Valladolid, Spain

A tribute to Edward Hopper, 

Spanish Nighthawks

Valladolid, Spain

Hot Havana Nights

Cuba

Five AM Prayer Time

Hempstead, Texas

Now we get into the monochrome photos.

White Sands Solitude

New Mexico

Small Town Taxi

Cuba

Young Love

Havana Cuba

Cooling Off

Havana, Cuba

Building Tobacco Drying Shed

Valle Viñales, Cuba

Adapting the new to the old, Oxen Cart

Valles Viñales, Cuba

Childhood Memories

Central Texas

Street and Model Portraits

Red Beard

Valladolid, Spain

Sister Sister

Valldolid, Spain

French Chef

Valladolid, Spain

Retired and Happy

Burgos, Spain

Housewife

Havana, Cuba

Street Performer

Havana, Cuba

Aspiring Model

Houston, Texas

Jerry Brown, Photographer

Fayetteville, Texas

Juergen, a German Businessman

Havana, Cuba

Porkpie Hat Blows Jazz

Valladolid, Spain

Havana Social Club

Popular Cuban Entertainer

Havana, Cuba

Salsa Moves the Soul

Havana, Cuba

Dancing in Sync

Havana Social Club

No, No, No

Havana Social Club, Cuba

And those are the ones that made the final cut out of the couple thousand photos taken in 2023. 

In 2024 we return to color photography but still occasionally making B&W prints.

Ride safe, see you on down the road,

CCjon