Accommodating Neel | Fuji X-E2, Helios 44mm

Tuesday dinner with Cal (we let him off the hook this week) | Fuji X-E2, 35mm

On Fridays I'll be featuring the daily photos I take throughout the week. To see the photos I've taken throughout the year, you can check out my Flickr feed. I've also added camera and lens info below each photo.

If you're interested in even more eye candy, I (mostly regularly) take part in a blog with other phenomenal photographers, far more talented than I, who are shooting with the Fuji X system. We call ourselves the Fuji X Crew. Those posts are published on Fridays and can be found here.

I have been thinking about color a lot lately. I mean a lot. It started in my photo group when one of us mentioned that she was working on her color palette. I thought that was pretty cool. And it got me thinking about my own color palette. I know I'm drawn to certain colors in my home and wardrobe, so of course I'm drawn to certain colors in the photos I take. But do I sit down and think about it? Not really.

It's time.

After listing the colors she thought made up my story, Christine's wise suggestion was to create a secret Pinterest board based solely on color. Now admittedly, I'm not the most adept at Pinterest, but man, that place sucks you in, doesn't it? I cleaned up my standing boards first, ensuring that the cover photos of all my boards felt roughly thematic. After that, I dove in, initially hesitant but with gaining confidence. I pinned and pinned and pinned. This could go on for days! It was blessedly freeing. I didn't have to worry where anything went or how to categorize certain photos, I chose each picture solely by color alone.

I do have a color story. Christine nailed this first chapter, warm whites. What a help she was! And looking back through my photos, it's there. Not as much as I'd expected based on how I was pinning, so maybe I need to pay attention to that too. And then, how do you tell a color story with words? That's what Christine and I want to know.

All I know is that I'm going to try to start telling my color story better in my photos. It's one thing to look back and see how your story has unfolded. It's quite another to make deliberate choices so that the path keeps moving forward. There will be more color stories and more chapters to come.

{still + life} 365 :: nov 14-20

color story :: warm whites {still + life}