The group is not run as a club. These are meetings of like minded photographers discussing and enjoying monochrome photography, either digital prints or traditional darkroom prints. Will colleagues who attend please bring some of their monochrome prints to show.
For most of history, black and white photography was a photographer’s only choice for taking pictures. Even when colour became available, black and white photos were initially of better quality and less expensive to develop than their colour counterparts.
As its quality improved, colour film became a more popular choice for photographs, causing black and white photography to decline in popularity.
However, at present, black and white photos are enjoying a revival. Photographers are rediscovering the power and timeless nature that black and white can lend to photos.
The Lincolnshire Monochrome Group meet on the first Sunday of the month at Nettleham village Hall near Lincoln .
The venue opens at 10.00am with the meeting starting at 10.30am usually with a speaker. All the speakers have their own web pages ;just google them for more info.
We break for lunch at 12.15pm until 1.30pm . The group members show their MONO images (prints or digital images ) in the afternoon ; we usually finish about 3.30pm .
The cost of the day is £8.00 . For more information contact j.m.martindale@outlook.com.
Why Take Black and White Photos?
With the vibrant colours available in modern film and with digital cameras, why opt for black and white photos at all? Depending on the subject, a photographer may use black and white film to create a stark, somber tone for his photos. This quality has paved the way for black and white photography in photojournalism.
The vibrancy of colour can, at times, actually detract from the desired photographic effect. Subtle effects of texture and lighting that can be lost in colour photographs, will stand out in black and white photography.
Black and white photos can add an air of romance, 
class, timelessness and mystery to otherwise ordinary photographs. A run-of-the-mill colour photo may look entirely different when seen in black and white. For this reason, both wedding and gothic photography have embraced the timeless quality of black and white photos.
Members Work
Click link below for a zip file containing an EXE file of the members work
Programme
7th June Colin Trow ~Poole.
Colin is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and The Irish Photographic Federation,
has a masters of the PAGB and has won many gold and silver medals.
Colin has also had many solo exhibitions and has also had images and articles in
photographic magazines.
A traditional darkroom worker who has embraced the digital world, his work is dramatic
and moody. To see examples of his work go to
Because of the travel distance, this will be a zoom talk exclusive to the group and will only
be available at Nettleham Village Hall.
5th July Colin Jarvis
Colin is a professional landscape photographer based in the northwest of England. He runs
very successful photographic workshops in many aspects of photography. This will be a
varied show of monochrome landscape photography. Again this will be a ZOOM talk
exclusive to the group at Nettleham Village Hall.
Find out more at Colin Jarvis Photography here
Landscape Photography Workshops by Colin Jarvis Photography
2nd August Chris Ceasar.
Chris is a Yorkshire based landscape photographer. He is a award winning photographer at
both national and international level and has also won awards for his photographic talks.
Chris will be appearing in person
Home – Chris Ceaser Photography
6th September Rob Bentley
Visiting us this month from Hull we have Rob Bentley a well-known local
street/documentary photographer who has had many exhibitions of his work in local
prestige galleries .
You can find out more about Rob here
For more info on the group please e-mail Mike on j.m.martindale@outlook.com