It seems no one likes nor remembers black and white photography. One of the things I miss most about black and white film is having my own lab at home. There’s something magical about watching your negative turn positive in developer.
The other thing I miss about black and white film is being committed to monotone. Sensors now-a-days allow me to convert between color and not and I get so torn between the two. I absolutely love this photo in black and white but to be honest there’s something special about the color version. I guess the color version feels more… real.
I like the colder unrealistic nature of this version though. I think it works with her expression, pose, my lighting, and composition.
I’ve been on the hunt for sunsets lately. Partly because a few years back I tried to do a sunset shot on Clearwater Beach and was recently reminded of this lady who walked right in my frame. It would have been fine except she stopped and started calling her child to get up and fallow her to the car. The kid ignored her and she persisted for 2 minutes to stand there and call her child until the “sweet moment” had gone.
Another from my Sunday walk through Safety Harbor as the sun was setting. I wanted to create a little grit here in the grain. I thought this Lightroom Preset might work well for city streets that have yellow lines as this tree recently was painted… as though someone would just bump their head on a branch that’s been sticking out there for a hundred years now. Wow, that’s BS.
I took this beautiful photo about an hour or two before the sunset in Safety Harbor this past Sunday. I wanted to do something to bring back the colors that I saw so, I created a Lightroom Preset to share. Download 
I’ve been ignoring my website long enough, it’s time to commit to a few photography projects. So, starting today for no other reason than I must start somewhere I’m doing a photo-a-day blog. This will not be a photo-a-day for 365 days but rather an indefinite mission.
