Monochrome wall, Free People Clothing Boutique, Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto
Cloudy and cool here in Palo Alto. The heat wave has broken, so I went for a stroll around Stanford Shopping Center looking for some photos for the weekly photo challenge: Monochrome.
The first photo was Free People; a good way to start the tour. Free People Clothing Boutique is a small shop that sells trendy clothes for women; right outside their door is the big dig that features several tractors and earth movers (that was my second photo).
Big Dig, On-going construction at Stanford Shopping Center
Coffee outdoors, at the Nordstrom patio (high contrast)
Coffee outdoors, at the Nordstrom patio (high grain)
Another coffee shop, look at that dumpster flying by.
Children’s Hospital, Stanford, under construction.
All the shots for this challenge were taken with a Nikon P7700, a good point-and-shoot camera. The P6600 has a Monochrome Effect that I set to high contrast and high grain. On refection, I would rather take the images in raw mode and convert the photos to monochrome in Lightroom.
The challenge was a good one for me; a chance to learn my camera’s better—always a good first priority.
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