Recently I took this photo of Addison:

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:

Filed under Addison, Before & After, Black & Whites, Dalton, Noah on May 17 | 2 comments

Addison does this very serious stoic prayer-like routine when its time to make a wish and blow out the candles. She is very VERY serious about her wishes. Even though it was my birthday, not her’s!

Filed under Addison, Black & Whites on May 9 | 2 comments

Closer to 14 than 13, why can’t time stand still? I love capturing Dalton in black and white because it seems so much more dramatic and that matches perfectly with the drama of being 13.5.

I love this picture in color and B&W but the B&W sort of pierces the soul:

Four pictures I love, four completely different moods.

Filed under Addison, Black & Whites, Dalton on May 7 | 1 comment