B&W Challenge No. 85 - Walking and Running

[pontiac1940]

Walking and Running

Well it is the first day of August and the first Thursday of the month. Being the first Thursday, it is also time for the month's B&W challenge.

Walking or running will be the black and white challenge theme for August, 2024. I am looking for photos of people or animals including reptiles, birds or insects that are obviously walking or running. (The subjects can't be just standing on legs but displaying obvious walking or running action.)

My examples were processed in ACR with adjustments to levels and contrast. They were all desaturated in ACR. Most were then adjusted in PSE using the Gradient Map Adjustment layer (with B & W set as the foreground and background "colours") to do minor level tweaks to B, W and grays as needed ... to my eye.

I look forward to your walking or running B&W photos.

Clive

Cat and mouse


Dog with ball


Elk


Walker and her dog in winter


Winter walkers


Striding Canada goose


My wife walking ... this one looks a bit too high key (?) to my eye

[hmca]

Interesting topic with some nice examples, Clive.
Looking through my files I came up with a few that will work for this theme.

[billz]

Thanks Clive. Looking forward to capturing some ambulation!

[pontiac1940]

Aug 1, 2024 18:52:27 GMT hmca said:

Interesting topic with some nice examples, Clive.
Looking through my files I came up with a few that will work for this theme.

Nice set of "walking" photos. Varied subjects. 
Thanks for posting, Helen. 

[Howard]

Long Reef, near Collaroy. Converted in Nik.

[pontiac1940]

Aug 2, 2024 7:49:44 GMT Howard said:

Long Reef, near Collaroy. Converted in Nik.

Nice action. Tricky lighting. Definite running action. 
Thanks Howard

[billz]

A little sequence from this morning. I hope floating counts. ;-)  BW in camera with a contrast tweak in ACR.



Thanks again Clive.

[pontiac1940]

Aug 2, 2024 18:10:32 GMT billz said:

A little sequence from this morning. I hope floating counts. ;-) 

Excellent! Thanks for posting 
Humm. Air walking .... I'll allow it! 

[tonyw]

Not a lot of colour when I shot this Doberman walking in the snow so appropriate for B&W!



Tony

[blackmutt]

Another dog in winter

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[tonyw]

How about a Mountie trotting in summer:



Tony

[Peterj]

[Peterj]

Mountain lion

[pontiac1940]

Thanks to Tony, Judy and Peter for their recent photos.

Peterj...is the mountain lion in the wild? 

[Peterj]

Aug 6, 2024 5:13:10 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Thanks to Tony, Judy and Peter for their recent photos.

Peterj ...is the mountain lion in the wild? 

Not really. The Arizona Desert Museum is outdoors; it's a rescue facility for the injured that keeps animals that are not fit for release into the wild.