I'm back to working on the doll series. The show I have lined up is coming right up. Today I enlisted Calvin and Isabel in taking some shots in the backyard. It changes everything when you can see people in the pictures with the dolls. It becomes less about the dolls themselves and more about how we use them. Still, dolls speak to the imagination. There's no avoiding it.

The converstion to black and white was really to better examine the exposure of the photo and the tonal range, but I ended up rather liking it without the garish blue color of Isabel's pants. Black and white though would take me down another road and I feel distracted as it is. I'll have to think about it more before doing more pictures like this.