Black and White

Again, as I was clicking through websites and chance upon this.

I've always like black and white photography. Because other than the composition of the image, you can only play with lights and shadows. (something I am not good at. sheesh.. )

And this, absolutely captured the essence of black and white photography.

I know you can tweak the lights and all that jazz from photo editing software.
But nothing compares to the originals.
Some people are a natural at capturing the moment.

"Critically acclaimed Chinese photographer Fan Ho spent the 1950s and 60s taking gritty and darkly beautiful photos of street life in Hong Kong. His photographs, to be published in his new book “Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir“, reach back through time and space to connect us to the everyday sights of this bustling metropolis in a way that many of us have never seen before.

Ever since Ho moved to Hong Kong from Shanghai in 1949, he has been documenting these special everyday moments. But the challenges (and superstitions) he faced then were quite different from those faced by photographers today; “With a knife in his hand, a pig butcher said he would chop me. He wanted his spirit back,” Ho told the South China Morning Post."

Here for more images of his artwork.