Lasting memories #553 Black and white

  It's time for Lasting Memories fourth challenge of the month. For the month of June, LM is doing all about photos for inspiration challenges- This time, use a black and white photo.

I don't typically print in black and white and when I do it always tends to be in a larger format 5x7 or 8x10.  My photo of the Columbia River Gorge through the tree line at the top of Beacon Rock is just stunning in B&W ( so is the color version) whoever the selfie of myself and Tami is a hodgepodge of colors, so going B&W keeps the distraction at a minimum and lets the scenery shine.  All the color I need comes from the patterned paper and embellishments I used.

I'm so glad we got to get in this sunrise trip as the trail is now closed due to falling rocks.

Rocks took out the railing and damaged trees above and below.  This picture (from the Washington State Park post) doesn't do the trail justice as it is a series of switchbacks and stairs

This is one that I took on our way down when we actually had light

I was inspired by the color mood broad from LM #549

and Allison Davis sketch support #21

I started with the right-hand side of the layout with the pattern paper stripes then rotated the orientation and used an 8x10 focal photo instead of the group of smaller photos.  I printed my journal strips to get the maximum amount of info into a smaller space as I didn't want to cover too much of the focal photo.

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