Reverting to Minimalism

Someone recently told me that she always thought her grandmother wore a beautiful white wedding gown — until her grandma told her it was pink.

For about 100 years between the first photograph and the introduction of Kodachrome, people posed in white wedding gowns, bought green drapes, and shot the sun rising over the horizon.

Unless one was in the photo or near the subjects when it was taken, who could say for sure that the gown was white and not pink, the drapes were green and not blue, and the sun was red and not orange?

Take a good look at my red hat and white shirt in this photo.

If I didn’t tell you the color of my hat, how would you know? How could you know?

Appreciating the beauty of black and white photography and wanting to translate that innocence into this blog to express myself with minimal background color and sidebar noise, I started looking closely at other sites.

Folks ranging from Joshua Porter to Rein Henrichs to Jason Kottke say what they need to say in a minimalist way. I liked what I saw.

I chose this particular theme after seeing it on Skellie’s blog; and despite the design intended for Wordpress, there’s always at least enterprising individual willing to convert it into Blogger.

The credits are at the very bottom of this page.

As to the idea of my red hat and white shirt planted above, here’s the original:

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