Meditations in Monochrome - Digital Edition is delivered as a PDF file.
The book can be viewed one image at a time so you can enjoy the full impact of the photograph. You can also set Adobe Reader to view a book style presentation, seeing the pairings created in the original book.

Notes from the Author

Although the great Black and White masters, like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston have inspired me for 35 years, I have pursued color landscape photography with a passion since college. However, with the use of Photoshop conversions to B&W from the digital scanning of 4x5 film as well as digital capture, I am revisiting the roots of my photographic inspiration.

This ebook includes an essay about my early study of Black and White, my favorite B&W masters, my job at The Ansel Adams Gallery and the techniques I use for my conversions.
I selected 52 photographs for this digital portfolio, ranging from classic western landscapes to intimate details of nature. Locations include the coast of New England, the deserts of the Southwest and my backyard in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The selection covers a wide span of my career, with photographs dating from 1982 to many recent digital captures created as recently as 2008.

William Neill