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One of the most famous contemporary black and white photographers. Classic!

Simply wonderful photo.

Excellent Flower Photos by Cyril Cattin.

Maurizio Polese Polese’s works pay close attention to small, tiny details. The tones are perfects and compositions are beautiful which is why the photos are presented in this post. Notice the sharp contrast and the lighting at the first image below and the sharp pathway leading to the light in the second one.

When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison's growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends. This affected my photography in a profound way. Rather than the isolated subjects of my earlier work, I became interested in the strength of relationships, oftentimes using personal environments to amplify those conditions. My photographs of Alison, because of the nature of our relationship, are very much a father-daughter collaboration-Alison permitting me access to private moments of our life, which might, under different circumstances, be off-limits to a parent. The camera, early in her life, became part of our relationship, necessitating in me an acceptance, a quietness. We've never had long photographic sessions, but rather moments alone or with friends. The significance of these pictures emerges in retrospect. I realize as I look at them, that I created a visual life story of Alison, capturing moments in her metamorphosis from infant to woman-her relationships with friends, her rebellion, and underlying it all, her relationship with me, a constant throughout her life. I wanted to photograph her in all her extremes, and to be part of these times in her life without judging or censoring. Only in this way would I have a true portrait of Alison. Jack Radcliffe.

“Close-up of a wet leaf … taken with a Canon PowerShot A610 :)” The photo is taken by Sophie.

Photo with animals / professional photos / a macro photo and micro / a photo of insects.

These photos are made by Chan Chen.

Photos are taken by Justin Dotson.

Amazing picture of a flower sitting in water. The reflection almost looks surreal.

Rodney Smith has his own understanding of professional black-and-white-photography. Unusual, abstract and surrealistic works.

For the past two weeks we've asked you to go on a color fast for our black-and-white photo contest, with enlightening results. We now permit you to gorge on the entire visible spectrum once again, but first check out the fruits of your abstinence. These 10 photos are the highest-ranking black and whites among Wired.com readers. Whiffleboy won the contest with his photo "A Bit Spotty," at left. Whiffleboy will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.

Michele Clement - Artistic yet beautiful and extremely powerful shot. Michele Clement is the winner of Black & White Spider Awards 2007 in category “Outstanding Achievement”.

Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami on the hills surrounding the capital, where his film “Taste of Cherry”, which was co-awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes 1997, was shot.

“Jumping spider on a DVD reading my data! Shot with a Canon 20D with a Canon MP-E macro lens.” The photo is taken by Coder.

Magnification is approximately 4x lifesize hence the shallow depth of field (measured in millimeters even at f22. Why does physics have to spoil photography eh? Used NIKON D200.

Ghost Town Charm - Excellent lighting.

Roy Mckeown -Snowy Sheep.

The photo is taken by Chun-Chih Fan (ddsnet).

Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our black-and-white photo contest, we here at the Photo Department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention.