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    Why I Chose to Shoot in Monochrome That Day

    (This post continues a story from a photo I shared earlier.) There’s a song I’ve always liked called In Color by Jamey Johnson. He repeats the same line throughout the song, but it didn’t really hit me until I watched the video all the way through. Seeing those old photos in monochrome, and then watching the color slowly come in near the end, made the meaning land differently for me. “A picture’s worth a thousand words,But you can’t see what those shades of gray keep covered…You should’ve seen it in color.” That line came back to me when I took the photo of my wife holding our grandson. I had…