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Ah, the trees of Saint-Lizier* \u2014 and trees in general. I love them so much that I decided to make them the subject of this week’s post. Lately I’ve been photographing trees left, right and centre. And strangely enough, not always in colour. I’ve realised, in fact, that trees are even more beautiful in black and white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trees of the Bishops’ Palace at Saint-Lizier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A thuja<\/i> in front of the Bishops’ Palace at Saint-Lizier. Generally speaking, it’s not really my favourite tree \u2014 with the exception of the magnificent Moroccan thujas<\/a>, which this one did rather bring to mind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Photographing trees in black and white?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Trees are a vivid, luscious green, and the Ari\u00e8ge is no exception. On my first visit, I could have sworn I’d been transported to Ireland \u2014 the grass was that luxuriantly green. Yet when I came to work on my new book Regards sur le Couserans<\/em>, I opted decisively for black and white. The results genuinely surprised me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cover of my forthcoming book, available soon on this site, ahead of an exhibition about the region this summer. Working in black and white turned out to be a genuine revelation. Indeed, many of the shots were taken directly in that mode, for which I have had a particular fondness for a long time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not entirely new to me, mind you \u2014 I’ve been shooting in black and white all my life. There was a time when, if you wanted to enlarge your own prints, you simply had no choice in the matter, unless you happened to be very well off, which I certainly wasn’t. And colour darkroom work from the 1980s is precisely the sort of thing that makes you pine for black and white.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the trees of Saint-Lizier to the rocky shrubs of Ch\u00e2teau-Thierry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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An old shot of Ch\u00e2teau-Thierry taken with my trusty Canon AE-1 from the 1970s and developed by hand in 1986 or 1987. The quality of the lenses of that era was, how shall I put it \u2014 mediocre at best. You had to have serious money in your coffers then to afford decent equipment and derive worthwhile results, which really wasn’t my situation. These days, for film, I’ve moved on to the Canon EF I inherited from my father, which I’ve put back into service. A report to follow soon. We’ll see whether the 50mm f\/1.4 of the period holds up against the rather underwhelming optics I had on the AE-1 (probably a Vivitar zoom).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Colour or black and white?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A comparison of the same image in black and white and in colour, also taken at Ch\u00e2teau-Thierry, thirty years on, in 2015. Digital makes that conversion possible, but more importantly it also allows black-and-white shooting directly through the viewfinder on mirrorless cameras, or via the control screen on older DSLRs like my D850<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the image above, it’s plain to see that colour \u2014 even though the process has come a long way since the 1970s and 80s \u2014 adds absolutely nothing. Quite the contrary, in fact. Black and white is unrivalled when it comes to bringing out stone, cloud, shadow and contrast. And it neatly sidesteps those blank white or flat blue skies that have precious little to offer. You could also strip out all the colour while keeping a single selective hue (green being the most interesting here). That’s something I’ll come back to in another post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unter den Linden<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One weekend, a few years ago \u2014 as we do most years \u2014 we went to visit what is known as the “Bishops’ Palace” at Saint-Lizier<\/a>. Turning round, I caught sight of this magnificent centuries-old lime tree. It’s impossible to convey any sense of its scale without a human figure in the frame for reference. The result is striking, and once again \u2014 just as with the Ch\u00e2teau-Thierry image above \u2014 colour would have added nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unter den Linden: on the subject of trees, this monumental lime tree at Saint-Lizier is quite something. The lady standing beneath it gives a sense of scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From Saint-Lizier to Sucy-en-Brie<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ever since that revelation about trees in black and white, I’ve been out photographing all manner of specimens in that mode \u2014 and what’s more, in square format, which I find particularly satisfying aesthetically. I discovered this with the new Z9 I took on last year<\/a> (already 6,000 shutter actuations in such a short time \u2014 a sure sign of how much pleasure I take in shooting with it). If black and white lends itself to a degree of afterthought in photography (in native RAW mode, which always retains the colour information), square format is final. There’s no going back. It’s a commitment on the photographer’s part, not unlike what happens with film. You can’t really cheat.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An image from my forthcoming book Regards sur le Couserans<\/em>, available soon. You might expect black and white to flatten the vegetation \u2014 yet precisely the opposite happens. This treatment gives the landscape a greater sense of depth and drama.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With a mix of greenery, trees and architecture, the effect is even more striking \u2014 as in this view of Villeneuve-en-Couserans in the Ari\u00e8ge, also shot in black and white under the fantastic November sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More recently, it was Sucy-en-Brie that drew us out, camera slung over the shoulder, in search of a remarkable tree I’d spotted a few years back on the GR footpath that runs from Paris to Ozoir-la-Ferri\u00e8re in Seine-et-Marne. The photographs speak for themselves. Let the images do the talking \u2014 and let black and white pay its tribute to these quiet, beautiful living things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the remarkable oak trees of Sucy-en-Brie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The living oak at the crossroads of the eight roads.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It has taken a few knocks over the years, but it’s still standing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* Saint-Lizier is a historic town with roots going back to Antiquity, perched on a hillside above the River Salat, just outside Saint-Girons in the Ari\u00e8ge. For centuries it was the ecclesiastical capital of the Couserans and the seat of its bishopric, until the latter was dissolved under the Concordat of 1801.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can browse my portfolios<\/a> on nature and landscapes on this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MY PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIOS ON THIS SITE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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