Christmas in B&W

It is surprising that this thread is not more popular. What could be better than black and white photography at Christmas? Right?😃

Because of this thread, I recently realized that I have few black white images from Christmases past. So, I will be shooting more in the coming days and posting.

Let’s see more of yours!!!😎
 
Waiting To See Santa - Fort Worth, Texas

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So much pleasant deja vu here. Nice to relive aspects of my past...

All my early Christmas photography was in B&W, as we all did in those so-long-ago pre-color days. In the early '60s, initially with a Kodak Brownie 616, then a Yeshiva D, finally from 1967 with a Rolleiflex 3.5E2. The first two are long gone, but the 'flex endures.

Like just about everybody else, I changed over to Kodak negative films in the late '60s when we all went color mad.

Good to see the old wheel of life has come full circle and many of us are now going mono again.

Tellingly, all my 1960s color negatives have faded, ditto many of my early slides (thanks, Ektachrome!). But my B&W home processed negatives on Verichrome Pan have survived, in much better condition than I am now...

At my age, Christmas is now an entirely personal thing. We live halfway around the world from both our families and our Asian reps are not Christians, so for us 'Christmas spirit' consists mostly of good wine in sensible quantities, quaffed with lovingly prepared lunches and dinners for ourselves, the cats (they get King prawns on the 25th) and a few valued friends. Which suffices for us.

Happy Christmas, everyone. And best for '24.
 
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