Charlie Chaplin in downtown Colorado Springs

If you know me at all you know that I LOVE setting up fun Halloween photo shoots for my kids. I let their costume choices guide me when choosing locations and any additional props. I look forward to it all year long and begin planning their shoots the moment they select their costumes. (You can see the previous years shoots here, here, here, and here.) This year my son started to learn about Charlie Chaplin. He became mildly obsessed, reading every biography he could get his hands on and watching more than a dozen of Chaplin's silent movies. One of his favorite characters that Chaplin played is 'The Tramp.' And that's the costume my boy chose this year. We spent months putting the costume together, searching through thrift shops and antique stores for the just right pieces. I knew right away that I wanted to take Ryver's photos in downtown Colorado Springs and that I wanted this to be the first photo shoot that I ever edited entirely in black and white. It just happened to be a crazy windy day for this shoot - but we just used it to our advantage by capturing him chasing his hat the many times it blew off his head. We had SO. MUCH. FUN. I hope you enjoy!