Wait long enough you won’t need any AI help.
In fairness I did use a spot removal. A little bird poop on his head that bothered me, not him.
Photograph taken February 2026.
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Category Archives: Monochrome
Monochrome Monday, Reddish Egret
The Reddish are a photographer favorite, with or without the red.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, Leica 100-400, Lightroom, DxO Filmpack (Iilford Delta 100).
B&W Anole Hiding On A Stalk
The Anole, all sizes, have been moving around in all the bushes, plants, or even trees when it’s cooler. Of course they could say the same thing about me.
This mid sized Anole was on a thicker dry plant. These plants have been favorites of the lizards so it’s one of the first places we look. They blend in so well looking at a plant means checking each side.
This photograph was finished using a combination of ON1 and DxO Silver Efex. The integration functions of ON1 have been repaired as of the last update.
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, GODOX iT32 flash, ON1 Photo Raw, DxO Silver Efex.
Great Egret By A Rice Trunk, Black And White
A Great Egret walking through a cut in a salt marsh.
The water is low here, I think it was dead low tide.
What we had was wet tidal marsh, late morning. It could have been worse, like high noon. Sun glare is the image killer here.
I did enough to save the photograph by making a B&W image and using DxO Silver Efex. The software only does B&W and it’s a case of doing one thing, but doing is well.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.
Marsh Tree, Black And White
Looking over at another marsh dike.
The fore ground is actually water covered in thick Duck Weed. The close plants are tall grass. In most places much taller than a person. Here it was about 6 feet tall.
The dikes here are not very far apart in this marsh area. Most were first dug by hand using enslaved labor a few hundred years ago. No telling now why they were created like this.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 ll, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.
Old Rice Fields, Monochrome Monday
The Lowcountry is made up of marshlands, cuts, and canals that date back to the 1700’s and rice plantations. Enslaved labor dug and maintained thousands of miles water ways, the dikes and trunk systems still remain in use today.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.
Jasmin
A tiny plant that has huge vines, that never seem to stop growing.
Once you smell a full vine you never forget it. What you never see are the tiny blossoms.
Along the bottom of the high vines single tiny flowers hang low. I keep thinking there must be a photograph in there somewhere. So, when ever I spot one swaying by itself I take a shot.
So far this is it…but I know there’s a photograph in there.
Best viewed large (maybe).
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100, GODOX iT32 flash, DxO Silver Efex, FastStone.
Excited Snowy In B&W
It’s been a while since I’ve published one of these excited Snowy Egrets.
Nothing like one of these little guys in full attitude.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400, Lightroom, DxO Silver Efex.