In an instant, things can change or disappear or take on new meaning. That's what I love about photography - it's ability to grab a speck of time and preserve it. That one itty bitty moment, that 60th of a second is fleeting. But with a good combination of planning (or pure luck) and light, those instances of brevity can become photographs and end up outlasting even our very lives.
My children grew up in a flash. And now my grandchildren are starting to do the same. Photographing my grandkids has become an important part of my work now, and I know that's partially because I can stretch out my moments with them and make them last for years.
My granddaughter's hand and shadow, an image I made this past weekend, is a perfect example of my desire to hold onto everything these precious children have to offer and to "extend" the all-too-brief time I spend with them.
Just like that, they'll be grown and on their own. I'll always have the pictures I've made to take me right back to a day like this one, for example, when my granddaughter and I were bouncing on her bed and laughing at the shadows we made on the wall as the sun moved in and from behind the clouds just outside her window.
My children grew up in a flash. And now my grandchildren are starting to do the same. Photographing my grandkids has become an important part of my work now, and I know that's partially because I can stretch out my moments with them and make them last for years.
My granddaughter's hand and shadow, an image I made this past weekend, is a perfect example of my desire to hold onto everything these precious children have to offer and to "extend" the all-too-brief time I spend with them.
Just like that, they'll be grown and on their own. I'll always have the pictures I've made to take me right back to a day like this one, for example, when my granddaughter and I were bouncing on her bed and laughing at the shadows we made on the wall as the sun moved in and from behind the clouds just outside her window.
