No photography studio can match the expansiveness of the great outdoors, and photographer Leslie Goodmanson makes good use of Mother Nature’s backdrop by shooting the bulk of her work under blue skies and sunlight. Leslie co-owns Part of a Pair Photography with her close friend Lisa, and the two work together to pose expectant parents or full-grown families on beaches, park benches, or in the shade of towering trees. Both mothers, Leslie and Lisa take a special pride in their infant photography, which celebrates new life simply with black-and-white prints highlighted by select color accents. Whether snapping shots of graduating seniors or newlyweds at the altar, the two contrast traditionally posed photos with snapshots that make use of alternate perspectives, such as a bird’s-eye view or the canted, low-angle sightline of an observant garden gnome.