Healing with Black & White

Recently I took this photo of Addison:
before

I really love the photo but the ugly BRIGHT orange cone jutting out from her shoulder was a LITTLE distracting to me.

I’ve noticed that often times I can salvage a photo like this without doing heavy photoshop work just by converting it to black and white. Suddenly, the orange photo isn’t so obtrusive and distracting at all:

after

Mother’s Day: What Its All About

My family!!! Taking pictures of wet dirty kids: a mother’s dream come true!!

my love
{my most beautiful sight in the world}

carefree
{childhood}

May 405
{all growed up, damn him}

May 402
{my baby boy}

May 388
{shelling: down and dirty}

May 387
{annoyed}

May 419
{looking cute, despite the glaring sun}

May 481
{water logged}

May 494
{dinner! Yes, he was really THAT happy about CRAWFISH!}

May 204
{I know this photo is all blown out and oversaturated to boot but I just love it anyway. I love these kids!}

Beachin’

Excuse the excess pictures. I got to shoot away for Mother’s Day! You’ll be seeing them all week!

Addy hung out with me all day so she got to be my victim model. So this will be an All-Addy post.

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