With everything for the show framed and ready to go, I thought I’d show you something other than birds. In addition to grant submissions I’ve been working on, I had an opportunity to enter an open call at the Side Gallery, which specializes in photography in the UK, and while I was editing them to meet size restrictions I decided to desaturate them of color to see how they’d look in black and white. Here are five.

All of these were shot on Cape Cod. The scene at the top and the trains above were taken in Hyannis. The rest are in Provincetown. They seem better, if not fresher, at least to me, in grey tones. But then again, this snowy graveyard is actually the natural color and only appears to be black and white because of the weather that day.

The street scene below was an interesting undertaking because the lines in the road and the house on the right are the same shade of yellow in the original version and it’s quite dynamic. But I think it works this way too, especially since the sky is more dramatic. It’s a bit like the shift away from the vivid colors of my earlier paintings as I took up charcoal as a medium.

And since one can’t do a Provincetown spread without the beach or the dunes - I’ve already spared you the classic rowboat and lighthouse shots - I close with this one of my friends Ron and Michael on the day I took them exploring while they were visiting one summer. Mind those footprints in the sand, they are how you’re going to find your way home.