5280 Lens Mafia salutes the American worker today. This is Kat, my favorite waitress over at Javier & C’s Diner. She’s busting it on Labor Day 2012 (I caught her here just before the rush hit).

5280 Lens Mafia salutes the American worker today. This is Kat, my favorite waitress over at Javier & C’s Diner. She’s busting it on Labor Day 2012 (I caught her here just before the rush hit).

Matador Network has posted an absolutely stunning series entitled “47 Unearthly Lightning Strikes.” A lot of these shots are of the take-your-breath-away variety, and 5280 Lens Mafia is especially proud because our own Greg Thow is included. Not once, but three times.
I’ve been looking hard at the shots I got from my Gunnison outing last month. In doing so I find I’m learning a lot about not only the technical differences in black and white vs. color, but also the differences in the stories the two approaches tell. All part of trying to learn not only about photography, but who I am as a novice shooter, as well. So, that said, here are two takes on a landscape I shot. They’re very different pictures to be the same picture, aren’t they?
Color first:
