Or, another way to put it, the Christmas of Kira. Getting to meet & snuggle our new niece made this holiday extra cozy.

Reese wanted to experiment with pushing Ilford HP5 400 to 1600 indoors (in layman’s terms, this meant all of our photos would be black & white). At first I didn’t like the idea – what about color? The Christmas greens & golds & reds?

But after looking through the moments below, I started to understand. I think I’ll always be the flower-power-sunshine-infused-color-on-turbo-mode half of us, but he’s right. Black & white = nostalgia.