I’m entering my dark period! No, I kid. This was from the recent pregnancy shoot I did over the weekend. There was this one photo of the soon-to-be-mother standing in front of the ocean. I looked at it untouched and, in full color, I fell in love. Beautiful blue skies, the ocean, a radiant mom, with her small belly holding their first child portruding just a bit. I loved the photo. Untouched, I was pleased: I felt I was capturing complete joy at that moment.

And then I saw the silhouette. Then the image took a left turn.

Scott is happy.
(In a happy ending to this story, the mom and dad got the beautiful happy color photo, which is a probably really good memory to keep. I gave them this one, too, since, you know… their photos. )