A ray of sunshine and colors; Portraits of Ada's rich melanin skin.

Since I joined the Hive, I've looked out for photography contests that I could participate in; since I'm a photographer. It didn't take long for me to discover the monomad challenge, and I've been an active participant since then. I've gone on to win second place in the daily contest once and made the list of honourable mentions two times. It's been an exciting experience for me. And I've been impressed by the quality of entries so far. They are so good that I wonder how I came second in the competition.

The monomad challenge is limited to only monochrome[entries]. And while I could simply convert a colored photograph to black and white, I also want to share colored photographs[in contests]. So today, I sought to find out if they were any photography contests for colored portraits, and I found one. And although it's a weekly contest, I'm glad I can still participate[especially since I can share colored photographs]. Thanks to Hive account@portraitcontest [I wish to know the real person behind the contest though].

For my entry into the contest, I'll be sharing favorites from the last set of portraits I shot during my last days in Uyo, Nigeria. I was posted there for my National Youth Service Corps[NYSC].

Here are the photos;

During my national youth service in Uyo, I met and connected with a lot of photographers. Oh! And models too. One of the photographers I connected the most with was Hive account@anya. An amazing human and photographer. We did a lot of collaborations together and it was always fun.

The end of my service year meant that I'll be leaving the town soon, so I reached out to him and my favourite model and asked that we did one last collaboration. Well not the last last per se, but the last for that time, because we had a recent collaboration. And there'll be more in the future.

So I reached out to him and the model and they obliged. We fixed a location and date for execution, and we did the shoot.

The photos from the session were amazing. The weather was so in our favour. The grasses were green, and the sky was naturally blue. A lot of people still think that I manipulated the blue sky, but I assure you that it was 100percent real. Although I enhanced it a little during post-processing.

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I'll love to know what you think of these portraits. Possible areas that I could have done better. Please leave a comment in the comments section.