Our theme this week is negative space and I am at the beach!  Woo hoo! I could look back on this theme last year and I know for a fact I posted photos that were taken on the beach. When I think of negative space, I think of big skies. What a perfect time to be at the beach.

So.... I wrote that paragraph above before I actually went to the "beach." I was in Dataw SC visiting friends. I'd never been before and they'd invited me to come. I had a free weekend so I thought, why not? Temps were in the 70s. It was a perfect time to be at the "beach."

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Black & White is the theme for our 2nd week of the 52 week pet photography project and I'll be honest, I struggled this week. I'm participating in the Pet Photography 52 Week Project to learn. Last year I feel as though I learned a lot in this group because we followed a book and the author made observations and gave suggestions I never would have considered. I was kind of hoping we'd use the same book this year so I could compare my images this year to last year's. 

So, when I saw the theme for this week I thought okay. Black & white. Then I thought, now what? What makes a great black & white image? When I'm preparing to go outside and take shots thinking about this topic, how do I know when I see a scene that it would be great for b&w? How do I know when I look at my color images if they might look nice in black & white?

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