While fall is surely one of my favorite seasons, there's much to be said about a photo shoot on an early summer morning. Other than yard sale-ing, it's one of the few things for which I will excitedly rise (early) on a Saturday morning. What's even more inviting, this particular shoot was at a friend's farm.                                   

My original intention for the girls was having a backdrop of weathered, old barns and textured fields as a composition to fill most of the frame. However, these close ups stole the shoot and we were so pleased with the results. Here are just a few with more coming. We processed these photos in a few different ways. Each respective effect that we settled on really seemed to work well for these images.                

It did get predictably very hot as that August morning progressed into afternoon. Just when summer's oppressive heat begins to wear on you, endurance is easy because you know that autumn is just around the corner. Just as the waning summer days give the last of that certain summer light, likewise it is also the last of its warmth. Having fours seasons on Long Island is ideal. I can't imagine wanting to live anywhere else.

And so autumn has arrived, with chilly mornings and a palette of colors for its own perfect light. But, for this journal entry, some of the last light of summer.