I love the colors, exposure and focus of this photo. This was definitely luck and not skill.

Something that I think this photo shows is that at this time in my photography career, I was heavily using film recipes from Fuji X Weekly.

I don’t enjoy editing photos, so I’d rather get the mood that I want in a JPG straight out of the camera than spend time in Lightroom. My feelings about film recipes changed when reviewing photos with family after trips. The added grain and colors are distracting and deceiving, so I started shooting without recipes more recently and enjoyed sharing those photos more.

The primary reason that I enjoy photography are the stories and time spent with family and friends looking through photos and the recipes distract from that. I still LOVE black and white photos.