the light box

you can't go back

it seems like yesterday he was crawling on the beach...I have been thinking about this entry for a few weeks now, and the exact words never seemed to come together.  While surfing around on a few of my favorite blogs, I found this entry by the fish that sums it up pretty well.  Here is an excerpt...

There are some moments that might seem as though they never happened in the first place. A minute, an hour, a day – a span of time – where you wish you could have stepped out of yourself to view it from the outset. It was just that beautiful.

If you pay close enough attention, sometimes you actually realize, just know, in the middle of one of those beautiful moments that you’re part of a solitary occurrence, mitigated by time, place and coincidence. By fate. A first breath, a first kiss, a first time you realize the world actually can be beautiful and perfect, if only for that one moment.  And you also know it’s not going to happen just that way ever again. 

So your heart takes a snapshot, if you give pause to let it.  And then you will always remember exactly the way the sunlight fell, or a specific shade of blue, or the hum of the refrigerator or the smell of clean cotton. Or the details of someone else’s skin.....What is most intriguing about these snapshots is how easily they can provide a measure of comfort as well as one of regret -- of lost opportunities, broken connections and irretrievable time.

Thanks fish (for the full text click on the link above)...Until next time.

the look

The day before I went out of town last week, I had an amzing session with "K" and "S." It was a last minute add-on because mom wanted to have the session at their new homesite before the walls went up! The girls walked the timber beams, hung from the rafters, made graffitti on the concrete retaining walls, and tested my balance along the way. Then "K" found my cell phone....and proceeded to read all of my text messages.

a quick one of "S"...I don't want her to feel left out.

more from their session soon.

a quick one of the top floor...

just keep chuffing....

I am home. I am gone. School is out, and I will turn around 3 times and school will be back in session.  Mix that with regular photo sessions and the daily workings of life...well some days "i just keep chuffing" and still can't manage to get it all done.

I was thrilled for the opportunity to photograph the *superstar* Thomas the Tank Engine.  He made a very brief appearance all the way from the Island of Sodor this past weekend, and I was lucky enough to be there. 

Until next time...