Color or black and white? This a question that many photographers and photography lovers and viewers ask themselves. In fact, the question goes something like this: why do we need black-and-white photography now when it is so easy to shoot in color? Color is complete, it captures all the details, all the nuances, and yet... Color can also distract from the essence of the photograph, from what the photographer specifically wanted to convey. Gathering color, the photograph will portray the world in a much simpler and easier-to-understand form.
For me, it's easier to choose color or black and white. When I shoot in older places, places that remind me of the past, memories, and nostalgia, I like to change the photos to monochrome, especially black and white!
Any walk through downtown Bucharest, the city where I live (#whereilive), in places with great historical significance, such as the Athenaeum.
Fortunately, some of the old buildings in this area have been renovated, have been saved, and give beauty to this important square of the Romanian capital. Revolution Square! There are still some buildings to be renovated, they have been working on it for years but at an extremely slow pace.
I don't know when they will be restored to their former beauty. Until then, vegetation covers the abandoned sites.
On the plateau in front of the Athenaeum, I saw what at first I thought was a new construction site. A strange construction site, with a crane lifting some kind of iron flower or, perhaps, an enormous octopus!
I bypassed all that machinery which at one point came to life.
Then I understood what it was all about. There was going to be a street theatre festival, and there was a repetition by a French company named TAWA.
Now I saw the young acrobat performing high above the ground and in the background is the former Royal Palace of Romania, now the National Art Museum. The place most steeped in history from this square.
Next to the Royal Palace is the equestrian statue of the first king of Romania, Carol I.
The most important king, who started and largely carried out the modernization of the Romanian state.
This was a very short walk through Revolution Square in Bucharest. A place where I love to photograph both color and black and white. I still can't say which shape I like best.
This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.
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