talking to jack

Jack is an old mule. When I say old, I mean that Jack is really old… in the neighborhood of thirty years. Poor jack has seen a lot of life & his replacements have already arrived ont the farm in the form of Kit and Kate, two much larger mules that have already started to pull their own weight. Jack may not be around much longer but, while he is here, he will always have some company and conversation from this young child.

In this image, I stopped down the exposure one stop because the sun wanted to blow out the bright colors of her pinafore. I knew when I took the image that I would want to convert the photo to black and white and thought that having a blown out area would ruin the tones that I was shooting for.