Nick said, peering into the inky black of the shaft.

Her medium is black and white, her pictures lyrical and moody, and the book's lush duotone reproductions do her credit - incandescent whites, inky blacks.

And then darkness began gathering, like the inky black of a night stone, or of the book's cover itself, pulling the light and color back into the book.

The results are sharp and clear, with inky blacks that do justice to Wilder's noirish lighting.

Moments later he blew spirals of smoke into the inky black of the outback night.

Around 1915, he began to photograph its white interior, working at night when the windowpanes and shadows registered as deep inky blacks and he could control the lighting absolutely.

The orange lava flow against the stone greys and inky blacks- it's stunning.

His other eye tracked across and joined it as the video display split-screened to show the starfish on one side and the inky black of space on the other.

Luminous blues glow like halos around the lunar whites and inky blacks.

Before long, we emerged squinting from the inky black of the Karawanken toll tunnel into the brilliant sunshine of northern Slovenia.