GLOBETROTTERS WRITING PROMPT
November Monthly Challenge — Gray
Black and white photos and travel memories
As the northern hemisphere is approaching late fall, many are occupied with other things than travel. I mean, who travels in November? Who likes the often gray, wet and cold month anyway?
Not many I’d say.
But there is more to travel, adventures on the road and exploring new cultures than just the colorful world displayed on social media. Travel can be mindful, slow, and even joyful on rainy days.
While we don’t want to support depressing thoughts on rainy gray November days, we want to inspire you to lean out of your comfort zone and share with us some black-and-white travel tales. Figuratively and literally monochrome.
Removing the colors
The first step to sharing a story in gray would be to remove the colors of some travel photographs. Any cellphone app has a feature to transform your images into monochrome, that shouldn’t be the issue. But remember the travel aspect of it.
Looking at the image below, I remember the day. It was rather windy and I was strolling around the streets looking for something to photograph. I walked past some stray dogs lazing around in the grass and…
