WePhoto - 2016 - B&W - Vol 3

Dear all, I am very proud to introduce the new collection “The Series”. It was not so long ago since we have launched the first eBook, including the photo-graphic work of the 10 administrators, who at that time were cooperating in the “WePhoto” group. Sin-ce then, we have published 21 eBooks and the Spe-cial edition “Calendar 2015” and now two Calen-dars 2016.

This new collection – The Series - is made of diffe-rent eBooks, each one (or more than one if requi-red) related to a specific photographic theme, in-cluding the artworks of several authors from Italy and abroad. This is the third eBook of the fourth li-ne of this new collection and has been dedicated to Black and White.

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We are all so excited and happy to be able to collect such beautiful images and, most of all to be able to share them with a wide audience. Spread, share, recommend everyone to download eBooks from our webpages and links below.Also make sure to leave your feedback on the eStores – 5 stars comments would be great. RATE IT!You can really help us growing and sharing our beloved passion for photography! In this eBook you can also find the links to our Facebook Group. Come and join, invite friends to share and enjoy so-me of the best images from around the world!

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Special thanks and Credits

Special Thanks to Germana De Chellis, Director of our de-dicated Page “B&W” and her cooperators, Milena Masini and Andrea Marchini, who help me in contacting Authors and collecting materials. They have been working in back office, choosing Authors and coordinating everithing. Thanks to all our Staff too, constantly managing and ta-king care of the Group with its 11 thematic pages and onli-ne magazines.

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Thanks to colleagues Admin, for their patience. Along this time that I have been away from the normal routine

management of our network, and for the wonderful work they do every day with great passion.

WePhoto Networkthe Founder

Mario Bunčuga

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Copyright

© 2015 WePhoto © 2015 Mario Buncuga© 2015 Anna Maria Noto © 2015 Marianna Zamperi© 2015 Mario Palombo © 2015 Lucian Olteanu© 2015 Piero Polimeni © 2015 Ruth Chudaska Clemenz© 2015 Salvo Esse

All rights are reserved, to respectively WePhoto, Mario Buncuga for entire ebook and single authors for personal photos included in the related chapters. This book can be downloaded for free and distributed freely only as whole. The images and text are of exclusive property of the aut-hors who, prior personal contact, may authorize the use or not. you can also print from our link to Peecho online print service. Any other use will be fined by the existing rules on the subject of copyright.

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Black And White

L’inizio. Le prime immagini fotografiche, come quelle cinematografiche, furo-no in Bianco e nero. Prima ancora che esistessero fotocamere “personali” I Fotografi erano quasi degli EROI. Portando in giro attrezzature ora impensabi-li, hanno svelato un mondo a tutti irraggiungibile, con le loto fotocamere pe-santi, ingombranti, con lastre di vetro, su cui doveva essere stesa a mano una gelatina di bromuro d’argento, sviluppata subito dopo lo scatto. Ora, con le nostre Reflex, andiamo comodamente in giro e scattiamo stupende immagi-ni a colori. Eppure, anora oggi, molti eliminano le informazioni-colore per rida-re, con il Bianco e Nero, un’atmosfera di stupenda irrealtà alle proprie immagi-ni. Un fascino che il tempo non potrà mai modificare.

Black And White

The beginning. The first photographic images were black and white. Before there were "personal" cameras, the photographers were almost HEROES. Bringing around their equipment now unthinkable, they have unveiled a world unreachable to all, with their heavy cameras, bulky, with glass plates on which was to be laid by hand a gelatin silver bromide, to be developed im-mediately after the shooting. Now, with our Reflex we go around and we take beautiful color pictures. Yet, even today, many photographers eliminate color information to give back, with Black and White, the wonderful atmosphere of unreality to their images. A charm that time will never change.

Mario Buncuga

January 2016

www.facebook.com/mario.buncuga

mario.buncuga@gmail.com

https://500px.com/mariobunuga

Il colore è la realtà. Noi percepiamo I colori e le fotografie fissano un momento del mondo reale. Il Bianco e Nero non è reale, è una dimensione al di fuori della nostra esperienza e forse proprio per questo ci affascina in modo così misterio-so.Ho sempre amato questa dimensione, fin da quando svilup-pavo e cercavo attraverso la chimica di sviluppo e stampa, di esplorare quel mondo, esaltando contrasti, acutanza, luci ed ombre.Oggi, aiutato da nuovi mezzi digitali, cerco ancora di appro-fondire quella ricerca, cercando di andare “al di là” dell’im-magine scattata, cercando di dare nuova profondità, contra-sto, fino quasi ad alterare il tessuto della realtà di quell’atti-mo. Con la mia CAnon Eos 550D. Ma se non è a portata e “vedo un’Immagine”, non esito ad usare Smarphone o Ipad.

MARIO BUNČUGABrescia, Italy

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Color is the reality. We perceive colors and photos set a mo-ment of the real world. The Black & White is not real, is a dimension outside of our experience, and perhaps because of it fascinates us in such a mysterious.I always loved this dimension, since I developed and I was looking through chemical development and printing, to ex-plore that world, enhancing contrast, acutance, light and shadow.Today, helped by new digital media, I try again to deepen the research, trying to go "beyond" the image taken, trying to gi-ve new depth, contrast, almost to alter the fabric of reality of the moment. With my Canon EOS 550D. But if it is out of re-ach and "I see an Image", I do not hesitate to use Smarpho-ne or Ipad.

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www.facebook.com/Anna-Maria-Noto/

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Anna Maria Noto di Erice (TP) Italy 17 Gennaio 1971 ho inizia-to a fotografare da adolescente, con una ZENIT11 reflex, se-guendo un corso di fotografia, capace di trasformare l’inte-resse iniziale in vero amore per il mondo dell’immagine. Per nulla spiazzata dal digitale ho iniziato una vera e propria ri-cerca fotografica spaziando dal ritratto alla paesaggistica con la mia NIKON D700. Amo scattare foto in solitudine, la pace interiore e il paesaggio davanti a me sembrano diventa-re tutt’uno, mi piace comporre la fotografia concentrandomi su pochi elementi visivi, in modo che chi guarda le mie foto sia condotto in un viaggio mentale che riproduce la mia stes-sa esperienza. Oggi continuo la mia irrefrenabile voglia di scattare nei luoghi della mia terra, esplorare l’anima dei pae-saggi trapanesi trovando così il mio stile personale.

ANNA MARIA NOTOErice, Italy

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Anna Maria Noto Erice (TP) Italy 17 January 1971 I started taking pictures as a teenager, with a ZENIT11 SLR, taking a course in photography, capable of transforming the initial interest in true love for the world of image. Not at all crowded out by digital I started a real photographic research ranging from portrait to landscape with my Nikon D700. I lo-ve taking pictures in solitude, inner peace and the landscape in front of me seem to become one, I like to compose the photograph by focusing on a few visual elements, so that tho-se who look at my photos be taken to a mental journey that plays my same experience. Today I continue my irresistible urge to take the places of my land, explore the soul of land-scapes Trapani so finding my own style.

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My name is Marianna, I was born in Vicenza in 1980.I have recently discovered the passion for photo-graphy, especially for the black & white style, that perfectly suits shooting cats, my favourite sub-jects. I love the atmosphere that these contrasting co-lours can create, giving different interpretations to a shot. A play of light and shadow, brightness and darkness, white and black more or less saturated can change the perception of the same picture

MARIANNA ZAMPIERIVicenza, Italy

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Through the photos in my current project I try to capture the relationship between cats and the people they live with when they are sharing mo-ments of pleasure, engaged in a particular art or pastime they like best. When I start to shot, I find some kind of peace that takes me away from daily worries; it is a moment only for me with myself. For this reason I would like to pursue this project at the top of my possibi-lities.I hope you will enjoy it!

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Ho scoperto la fotografia quando avevo 30 anni. Amo la fotografia pensata a casa e realizzata poi in un ambiente senza rumore, dove la presenza umana è assente, ma se ne avverte ancora il suo passaggio.Amo fotografare per strada, fra la gente, quando in un attimo devi decidere tutto.

MARIO PALOMBOBergamo, Italy

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I discovered photography when I was 30 years old. I like photos “conceived” at home, and then reali-zed in a noiseless setting, where the human ele-ment is absent, but you can still feel its passage.I love photos taken in the street, among the peop-le, when in a moment you have to decide for eve-rything.

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LUCIAN OLTEANUBucarest, Romania

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HO QUASI 55 ANNI E DA OLTRE 40 FOTOGRAFO. HO INIZIA-TO CON UNA PICCOLA ANALOGICA 24X36, LA COSINA, POI SON PASSATO ALLA PENTAX ME SUPER PER POI ENTRARE NEL MONDO NIKON CON LA F1. SUCCESSIVAMENTE HO ACQUISTATO UNA ZENZA BRONICA 6X6 INNAMORANDOMI DEL FORMATO QUADRATO. SONO CRESCIUTO RESPIRAN-DO ARGENTINICO E TUTTI I PROFUMI DEI REAGENTI DEL-LA CAMERA OSCURA SINO AD ARRIVARE ALL’ANALOGICO CON NIKON. MI REPUTO UN FOTOAMATORE CHE AMA PARTICOLAR-MENTE LA STREET... SONO INFATTI TUTTE STREET LE MIE FOTO ANCHE SE IL SOGGETTO PRINCIPALE APPARE ESSE-RE IL MIO MARE.

PIERO POLIMENIReggio Calabria, Italy

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NESSUNA DELLE MIE IMMAGINI E’ INFATTI COSTRUITA E TUTTI I SOGGETTI RITRATTI SONO ATTORI OCCASIONALI ED INCONSAPEVOLI.AMO MOLTO FOTOGRAFARE SCENE D’OGNI TIPO MA NON SCATTO MAI IN ASSENZA DI NUVOLE CHE USO PER DRAM-MATIZZARE LE MIE SCENE CHE RISULTANO “BAGNATE” DI NERI PROFONDI E TONI SPESSO MOLTO ARDUI. LE IMMAGI-NI NASCONO SEMPRE PER CASO E SONO ACCOMPAGNATE DA “DIDASCALIE” CHE QUALCUNO AMA DEFINIRE POESIE. QUALCUNO SI E’ AZZARDATO A DIRE DI ME CHE SCRIVO CON LA NIKON E SCATTO CON LA PENNA E QUESTO MI PIACE MOLTISSIMO PERCHE’ IN FONDO LA MIA UMILE “AR-TE” SI COMPONE DI FOTOGRAFIA E POESIA INSIEME... AMO COSI’ RACCONTARE LA VITA, QUELLA VERA, QUELLA CHE AMO “NONOSTANTE TUTTO”. LA VITA E’ LA PIU’ BEL-LA FOTOGRAFIA DELL’ANIMA E LA SUA PIU’ BELLA SUGGE-STIONE E’ CHE NON ESISTONO SUPPORTI MAGNETICI CA-PACI DI FERMARE OGNI SUO ATTIMO.LO PUOI FARE SOLO COL ...CUORE. Piero Polimeni

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https://www.facebook.com/ruth.chudaska

https://500px.com/shadows

I was fascinated about photography very early. My father gave me the first camera when I was about 8 years old. During my high school time I met a professional photographer who showed me the es-sentials and borrowed the first Nikon to me. He published the first photos when I was 18. Then it was my dream to own a Nikon for myself.

RUTH CHUDASKA CLEMENZFinsterwalde, Germany

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Now, more than 30 years have passed. I did not fol-low this way to be a professional photographer be-cause I wanted to be free in my decisions what to shoot or not. For me force is the dead of photo-graphy. But the fascination for photography never completely left me. Meanwhile I could realize my dreams and after having long experiences with analogue Nikons I changed to the digital ones so-me years ago.... one of my dreams has fulfilled: I own professional gear and try constantly to impro-ve my skills and to learn every day new and intere-sting things about photography and post proces-sing. In my usual profession I work as psychiatrist ex-pert testimonies for legal authorities in Germany.

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www.facebook.com/Salvo

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My name is Salvatore Savoca. On the web, I am called Salvo Esse. I am 35 years old and I was born in Bronte, a small city located at the foot of the Etna volcano. If someone was to asked me how my passion for photography has develo-ped, I would not know where to begin. I can surely say that it has started almost two years ago, and from that day on me and my camera have been inseparable. I would define my-self as an autodidact and, until now, I have not been atten-ding any course.

SALVO ESSEBronte, Italy

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The first things to be photographed have been landscapes. I have always been in love with photos full of light and color effects. This has been until the day I have discovered a much more deep interest for photos in black and white. The best memory of that moment that I bring with me is the one of myself in a dark room with a thin light entering from a bro-ken window. All of this resembled a typical black and white atmosphere streaking my imagination since the very begin-ning.It is only through photography that I feel myself at ease when expressing my inner emotions and thoughts. It also re-presents a way for me to try to understand people thinking and to capture them in the best way possible.Photography has the power to take off the mask that everyo-ne wears. That is why, when I can give my photos a soul, I can say that I have given a “real” heart to my camera. I would translate this process into my appreciation for Street Photography.What do I think of photography?In my personal opinion, photography is like Noah’s ark, which contains and protects emotions, feelings and mo-ments of life revivable in time.

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