MONOCHROME BEST PHOTOS

Some of the best photographs in color make no attempt to utilize the entire available palette. A splash of just one hue can crystalize a moment or a mood in a way that a full spectrum often cannot. Sometimes black and white photography simplifies a chaotic world, stripping away distractions to focus on the subjects at hand. This isn’t necessarily true all the time, and there are many reasons for creating images in black and white. The monochrome image as well gives photographers that same distillation of intent that black and white can achieve, and still allows for the vibrant saturation of real life. Collected here are images that celebrate the primarily monochrome vision.--By Lane Turner

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 ORANGE

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GREEN

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WHITE

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A BUTTERFLY'S STORY

I'm crazy for spring!

CLOSE FOR HOLIDAYS

BETH HOECKEL

Beth Hoeckel is a multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore USA. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused primarily on painting, photography, and printmaking. A whirlwind decade was subsequently spent abroad including two years living in New York City followed by four years in Los Angeles. Beth is currently a full-time artist creating mixed media paintings and collages in Baltimore city.

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A NEVERENDING STORY OF ICONS

GOLD INSPIRATION

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The American Radiator Building

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geometric view of fashion

An inspired Valentine’s Day gift guide styled by Marsha Golemac and photographed by Brooke Holm at The Establishment Studios.

Le vie dell'acqua

It's a magic place, the sound of water inside you and funny colors in the eyes of children :-)

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fashion's pics / light's pics

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LET IT SNOW

A train of the Brocken Railway steams through a winter landscape with snow covered pine trees as it approaches its destination on the Brocken mountain in the Harz mountainous region of Germany on Dec 8. (Stefan Rampfel/European Pressphoto Agency)

Children ride sleds down a hill as the first snowfall of the season hits Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 2. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

A man clears snow in Ilmenau, central Germany, on Dec. 11. (Michael Reichel/European Pressphoto Agency) #

A child walks in a park after heavy snowfall in Kiev, Ukraine, on Dec. 11. (Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters) #

A North Korean man scrapes off snow from the monument of anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 10. (Kyodo News/Associated Press) #

People struggle against wind and drifting snow in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 5. (Andres Wiklund/AFP/Getty Images) #

People ski off piste at Val d'Isere, in the French Alps, on Dec. 11. Recent snowfalls have encouraged skiers to hit the slopes and the Val d'Isere authorities have opened certain slopes early. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) #