Autumn in black and white

Reed, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Fallen, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

I have taken mostly color photographs lately, but every so often I take some in black and white. I have looked at b&w photographs quite a lot, re-reading my photography books. There is so much to learn that sometimes it seems impossible to even start taking photographs.

Here are two photographs from today, when we went for a walk in to the Tremanskärr marsh and the Kurkijärvi lake. Nights are getting cold now, quite often below 0 °C, and thus autumn proceeds rapidly. But at daytime the temperature still gets between 5-10 °C, so it is not so cold yet. First snow, yet to come here in the capital region of Finland. (But in north Finland they are already cross-country skiing.)