In today’s digital world, where a camera is as close as your phone, it is easy to capture vivid color images of all life’s events. However, pick up any magazine or book, or walk through any gallery and you will still see many black and white images. Why are B&W images still relevant in our color world? We are excited to have Gregory Holden of Images Under Foot as our Zoom guest for this meeting. In his presentation, Greg will explain why B&W images are not only still relevant, but often the better choice for showcasing your images. We'll examine side-by-side color and B&W versions of images to demonstrate how removing color from an image forces the viewer to focus on the shapes, lines and lighting in the image. Greg will discuss how he learns to pre-visualize images for later black & white conversion so we can take on some of his techniques and improve our own B&W skills. Our competitions being due by June 1st are all B&W categories giving you time to work on creating your own B&W images. Thought no competition images are due for April, we will be discussing the upcoming ones, our next couple of meet-ups, and our plans for the the astrophotography outing in late summer.