monochrome monday —soft and vintage mellow monday

I enjoy playing with different black and white tones while editing my photos.

Today, I chose a charcoal and cream shade. It is vintage in look and feel, but not quite the usual rusty orange tones of sepia nor the sharp silvery tones of black and white.

These muted gradations bring a sense of solitude and quietness to my mind and heart where sharper colors might disturb the stillness.

Today I am in need of quietude.

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence
that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us,
as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

_{K.T. Jong}

^{f/4 | 1/25s}

Towards evening, they wound down precipices,
black with forests of cypress, pine and cedar,
into a glen so savage and secluded, that,
if Solitude ever had local habitation,
this might have been "her place of dearest residence.

_{Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794}

^{f/1.8 | 1/100s}

Category	Monochrome Photography
Camera	Nikon D3100
Lens	Nikkor AF-S 55mm f/1.8 -16.0G
Settings	ISO100 | 50mm | f/4 and f/1.8 | 1/25s and 1/100s
Location	Flamborough, Ontario

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Thank you @old-guy-photos
for initiating the #monochromemonday photo challenge.