Ann - Thank you! I wasn't intentionally trying to be "artistic". It was overcast and gloomy outside today. The photos are not black and white photos. They were taken looking up towards the sky and just turned out that way. I should have used a backlight setting so I wouldn't have gotten the silhouetting effect. But I did like the photos when I downloaded them to my computer and thought they were different than what I usually take. A different perspective ....