Black and White Photo Challenge Explanations

After being tagged by tropicanaomega, I finished the seven day black and white photo challenge, and now I'm going to go against the spirit of the meme and explain all my pictures. I didn't do it during the challenge, so that counts, right?

I wasn't sure I was going to participate at all until I looked on the internet to make sure I understood the rules and I found this article about how terrible the whole idea is, written in a very "how dare you have fun!" way. I mean:

Many people can’t leave the house without posting a photo on Facebook. So to frame this as a challenge is just asking for trouble. The prompt to eschew color, people, and explanatory text has given participants free rein to post cringe-worthy “arty” pictures they’d normally have the good sense to be embarrassed by: their shadow-dipped lattes, their brooding pets, their kids’ tilted-over toys, often framed diagonally to add that extra “I’m doing serious photography” edge. The leaves! The cars! The fences! I saw one photo of a faucet, for some reason. Is this Facebook, or are these the photos that come prepackaged with frames at Ikea?

Someone is Mad On the Internet. And so to make them even madder, I posted my own photos. Explanations follow.

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