Roman and Dylan back in July 2008

Roman and Dylan back in July 2008, originally uploaded by Vanessa Pike-Russell.

Roman is my step-son's step-son and in his arms he holds his one month old baby brother, Dylan. It is still such a joy to see this photo two years on. Roman is such a good big brother and I am sure the two will be great friends growing up.

I'm working on a photo book of images to celebrate Dylan's 2nd birthday in June and this is one of the images that the lighting was bad and the image hampered by colour shift into the oranges. I edited this using Topaz Adjust and then some curves and levels followed by selective blur and sharpening.

To take this photo I used a Pentax istDL camera with a manual 50mm f1.8 lens borrowed from a Pentax KM slr which was purchased by my husband Philip in 1969 from Asahi, Japan