Can we talk about joy for a minute? Unbridled, bare feet in the sand, flying through the air on a carnival ride, joy? We don’t do enough of it, but we were lucky enough to spend a day in December with visiting family at the Santa Monica Pier and I just can’t keep the photographs…
Documentary Family Photography for the Holidays and Beyond New Year’s Eve used to be one of those fraught holidays for me. I found all of that pressure for it to be THE BEST NIGHT daunting. To be doing the right thing that would somehow set the perfect tone for the whole year. It was all…
I love this photograph for it’s juxtapositions and the story they tell. The school director’s hands hovering over the young students shoulders, the rubber band bracelet, clearly made by a child, next to her watch and other real jewelry, the private moment happening between the two of them despite all of us parents sitting in…
To me, this photograph represents the freedom of early childhood and that is why I love it. I took it on a camping trip in Ventura, California, organized by my son’s nursery school. As each family arrived and set up their tents, the kids found each other and began to explore. Right behind our camp…