The Last Light

When color fades away…

…leaving room for shades of gray.

After my previous/first post of this year, I was to leave this post as is, only sharing the above #tbt image(s), The Last Light over the NYC skyline in color and black-and-white. And, while my January started promptly with a loss, it is still January, the beginning of yet another year. Hence, I can still take one last glimpse at the year that was, before bracing myself for what 2026 is to bring.

For a while now and particularly most recently, I’ve been feeling that, metaphorically speaking, life’s colors are fading away, vanishing into shades of gray. After all, loss, individual and collective loss, has that effect of draining the color, life’s joys, out of someone’s life.

You’d think that I love the shades of gray. After all, I love black-and-white photography and often find myself on the darker, more dramatic, side of life. That’s true. But I also believe that oftentimes color and black-and-white work best together, help tell the whole story, in photography and, metaphorically speaking again, in life.

What do you think? Please feel free to share in the comments below.

As always, thanks for stopping by,

Alina Oswald

PS: Check out my #tbt post on color vs black-and-white, here.

Thank again!