Black and White Wednesday~A Forest Fairy

Sometime this year I lost my photo mojo. There were several things that led to that one of which was my thyroid and adrenal disease. When you have no energy to do the vital things to get through the day, you don't get to the things that make you happy but are extras (like hobbies). I just kind of stopped taking pictures (took candids of the important events) and I stopped learning and practicing.

Now that I am slowly feeling a little better (although my darned thyroid is not getting better and in fact got worse!), I am trying to get back into the swing of photography. This week I am playing along with Lisa's Black and White Wednesday...

I took this of Kate a few weeks ago (around her 4th b-day). We were in a park in the middle of the city but she was frightened because she heard cicadas. Clearly this city girl is not used to nature noises.

This is darker than I usually process my black and whites and a little more dramatic. But I think it captures her mood. She was warily checking out her surroundings because of all the nature noise at 8 am on a Sunday morning:) I used Flora Bella Collection rich vintage black and white and adjusted the layers to convert it.

Here it is straight out of the camera...

PLEASE keep my friend Eloise's daughter Vivian in your prayers. Vivi is dangerously ill and in the hospital on a ventilator. Vivi and her whole family really need prayers. We have had the privilege of getting to know this family in real life and we think the world of them.