This chilly Maine winterscape, a retro black and white view, takes us back to simpler times when photography was a study of contrasts. The majority of our population doesn't remember the time when black and white photographs were the mainstream format.
Early 19th century Europeans began development of various types of black and white photo processes. Here in the United States ambrotypes, tintypes and ferrotypes were popular in the mid 1800s. An inexpensive Kodak Brownie box camera, introduced in the early 1900s, gave the population an opportunity to take up photography. Today, color is king and popular film photography is being replaced by the digital age, making this Picture of the Day possible.