A portrait comes from an idea. A desire to remember. Not really the act of taking the photo but rather, the why we are taking the photo. That reason can be and is usually a very powerful one. The birth of child or the death of a loved one. One single portrait can often tell the story of a lifetime.

He was entranced and promptly proclaimed “I want to play on that stage!” after Ricky Skaggs’ last song of the night. When a neighboring concert goer said “it’s neat that you brought your boy here,” I smiled and replied, “he brought us.”

We met on the second floor of our local library and right off the top they said the three magic words, “whatever you want.”