Black and White Family Portrait - 365+1

Cafe Vienna - Inspiration Lane Collab

I really didn't know how I was going to do a 'family portrait' today, but then remembered the photo of me with my sister-in-law (on the right) which I had scanned for a blog post about Street Food on Farmersgirl Kitchen    The photo was in colour, but the colours are fading, so ideal to be converted to black and white.  It was in 1983 that Brian and I went to visit his sister, who was teaching in Malaysia and one of the first experiences we had was to visit this satay stall set up in under canvas in the street.   

Black and White Three - 365+1

We have embarked on a series of black and white photo prompts, just at the time when the landscape seems to have burst into glorious shades of red and yellow.  I was out and about this weekend with visitors at New Abbey, and took a lot of photographs which I think you will be seeing over the next few days.  With this first prompt "Black and White Landscape" I made the layout in colour and then changed the whole thing to black and white.  Not sure that I really like it, but that is probably because I prefer it in colour!

Scraporchard - SO September Mega

Bisontine - Vintage and Kelly Marie - Bailey

I don't often feature my grandson in my layouts, but decided to 'extract' his image from the photograph convert to black and white for the 'Black and White Portrait'

DSD by Athena - Elegance

Here is an odd photo.  I took a close up of these mushrooms growing at the base of a tree, they look even more strange in black and white for the 'Black and White Close Up' prompt.

Portraits - 365+1

Studio MGL - Awakening

Another catch-up layout today.  Hoping to be back on track this week as I have no overnights away with work and am not expecting any more visitors. 

The prompts for these photos are:

#132 - Unforgetable, I've chosen a photo taken on the river cruise we took from Moscow to St Petersburgh, definitely unforgetable.

#133 - Self-portrait, well not quite (cheating again), my husband took this one yesterday at Threave Gardens.

#134 - Portrait of a woman, my Mum painted this stylised portrait of me from a photograph taken by my Dad, I was 16 at the time.  Mum offered me the painting, but I really didn't want a portait of me looking back at me everday, so it stays in her house!

365+1 - Portrait

Suzie's gone a bit soppy on us the last couple of days, the Valentine hype must be going to her head!  Anyway, today's prompt is 'Portrait of someone you love'.  My someone was busy doing other things today so I had to use one from last summer when we were in the Lake District.  Karen Schultz's kit - 'The Artist in Me' was perfect for this portrait prompt!