Pre-spring

I was talking with some photographers on-line about new and interesting ideas for less conventional settings for pictures. I went off on a tangent saying that I get so many people who want to photograph outdoors and have that "let's wait for the good weather" attitude. In Buffalo, the good weather sometimes doesn't come around until June. In general, we have a pretty short "green" season but I think all the seasons are beautiful if you look for it. So, my personal challenge became to take the very dead, brown, pre-spring comditions and make it interesting and fun for portraits. Brown is in, right? All the trendy color pallettes I see are still very brown-centric. Easy. So here is my homage the the color brown.

Grace was my unwitting assistant. She did really great. Her motivation was looking for dogs that she could pet walking on the bike path. We met a few really nice, friendly ones. Grace loves dogs. She squeals. Literally.

I really like the monochromatic colors and all the textures. I would have loved to get deeper into the tall weeds and cattails, but the ground is still wet and Grace doesn't like to get messy. I think mud would be awesome for these, though. Any little ones out there want to come model for me in some mud puddles?