The Black & White City

We visit the beautiful city of Chester a couple of times a year (highly recommended for food and drink and a little retail therapy) and rather than lug a DSLR and several lenses around I take the Ricoh GRIII. The problem is that it is such a picturesque little city that quite often the photos are pretty similar on each visit, so this time I've tried to see it a little differently and coupled with Monochrome processing I've come up with this little set. Hope you like some of them ....

1. Eastgate clock and the Chester Grovesnor



2. View from the Rows



3. Walk and Talk



4. The bicycle frame



5. Coffee stop



6. What a performance!



7. Canalside dwellings



8. Classy cobbles



9. Cathedral view



10. Back to back

I will go there one day. The bicycle frame does the job for me though I'd like to see it with and without that great big van - I suspect that it would not be as good without it?

Very nice set.
Good use of mono and some good contrast

Very nice set! Interesting compositions and great b&w tones. Thank you for sharing!

'Hope you like some of them.' Ahem, how about all of 'em? Lovely work here. I do so like b&w images, you've captured the location so well.

Great set. Like the processing as B&W. Favourites - numbers 2 and 8.

Number 8 for me, all great shots tho. Lovely place Chester.
Is that a real pile of candle wax in no. 5 ?

A super set! Great choice of B&W suits the subjects all the way through.

Again, thanks for all the comments - it's one of our favourite visits!

And yes Loadoftripe that is a real waterfall of wax - it's at a great little place on the Chester rows called "Paysan", they serve a superb range of wines and do a great cheese board and chips. To top it off upstairs is a place called "the cavern of the curious gnome" they sells Belgian beers and a few decent real ales - my beer of choice on this visit was Racing Pigeons, a lovely session hazy pale ale.

No. 8 is fabulous! Such lovely tones and great composition. Well done