Black & White

Here are a couple images from a class I had yesterday with John Nordell. We talked about visual literacy and how what we look at (websites, magazines, music) affects what we see and what kind of images we make. I try to look at a ton of wedding and portrait blogs to help me get ideas for styles/poses/backgrounds and I think it helps me a lot when I am actually shooting and my mind goes blank for ideas. I then think back to a certain website where an image stood out to me and try to incorporate any of the elements from that image. So anyway, here are a couple black and white pictures!!

Oh, and why do winter scenes always look better in black and white???