© Photo by Steve Keegan 2014, All Rights Reserved.My day 4 offering for the Black & White Photo Challenge is this detail shot I took while working on a photo story of a homeless man named Mike Burgess about 15 years ago. There is water on Mike's left hand because he asked if he could wash his hands before I made this image of him holding his "favorite book." While shooting an image of his hands being even dirtier might have made for a better photo, I felt it was important to not treat him differently than any other photo subject I was covering that might have made a similar request. The fact that you can still see how dirty and weathered his hands look even after they've been ...

© Photo by Steve Keegan 2014, All Rights Reserved.For Day 2 of the Black & White Photo Challenge, I have chosen this image I took of water dancing around the rocks of the Truckee River. This image was taken near dusk and I believe the exposure was around 20 or 30 seconds on a lightweight tripod I carry with me. The muted colors of rock and water lend themselves nicely to the monochromatic nature of black & white.Just to recap from my first post about what the Black & White Challenge is, somebody nominates you to post one black & white image each day for five days in a celebration of black & white images, and each day you are supposed to nominate a different ...