Free weeks are fun, don’t you think? I love being able to choose what I want to do and what I show you. This week I went back to my infrared photos of Montsalvat.
When I went a month or so back, I couldn’t help wondering what Montsalvat would be like in winter, and more so, how the infrared camera would photograph it. I think it did a great job.
Montsalvat is really large, and I took a lot of photos in the couple of hours I was there. I didn’t want to put too many in one post, so I decided with this one to stick with the main parts and do the buildings.
I love how they have done the buildings and kept them to that old style, so they look out of place in Australia. We have old buildings, but when you compare old buildings in Europe, ours are all babies. So these are built this way and really do look old. It often surprises people when they find out the place isn’t even a 100 years old yet.
There will be more posts at some stage about Montsalvat, but I thought I would show these for Monochrome Madness this week.
Next week, our next host is Elke from pictures imperfect blog, and for Monochrome Madness #42, she wants to show monochrome images of our pets, or friends’ pets, or strangers’ pets. I’m sure she won’t mind.
Participating in Monochrome Madness
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These are amazing, Leanne! The monochrome with the infrared spectrum really give these photos a kind of almost haunted feeling. When I first saw the image in the WordPress reader, I thought these were from some old town in Romania or Bulgaria. I had no idea until I read your post that this village is in Australia. Way to use the tones to set a mood. You hit this one out of the park.
Thank you so much Tim. I agree, I really liked how they came out. Yeah, hard to believe it is in Australia.
These are beautiful in black and white.
Thank you.
Those buildings do look really old, much more than 100 years, and the use of infrared gives them a magical, fairy-tale quality!
Here’s my contribution for this week (and yes, theme-free weeks are fun, but so are the themed challenges!): https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-seeing-svalbard-in-black-and-white-part-one/
They do, don’t they, kind of amazing. I love how the infrared worked there. Thank you Sarah.
I deleted the second comment because, as you can see the first one did work, no idea what happened, sorry about that.
Leanne, these are so nice, I really like the one with arches, the light in all these is so good
Thank you Ritva, it was a great day for photos the day I went.
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Wonderful buildings. The first photo is wonderfully gothic and ethereal
Thank you Brian, they have imitated that style really well.
I love Montsalvat. I have visited it a few times and your mages of it in monochrome gives it so much depth. Here is mine https://wanderingteresa.com/heidelberg-rhineland-in-monochrome/
It is a really interesting place, interesting too when you work out the commercial part and the artist part, lol. Thank you Teresa.
Hello Leanne,
I really like your selection for Challenge Week, especially the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and last ones.
I chose a double exposure for the free week, https://wp.me/pfnz9O-QV.
Many greetings, Robert
Thank you so much Robert.
I’m always intrigued by infrared photography. You did very well, indeed!
Thank you so much Elke. There will be more.
These buildings really do transport me into the past.
They have been done well, thank you Sandy.
Great pictures. I like how the infrared camera takes pictures.
Me too Anne, I love the effect, thank you.
This is pretty and it does look old. We have some houses here to do that ‘English Tudor’ look. It seems a bit out of place here in Florida, but I still like it.
Thank you Lois, it seems out of place here too, everyone knows that Australia is not with white settlement, and Victoria is not even 200 years old.