The great outdoors — Rock Creek Park — is a wonderful place for family photos, especially in the fall. Trees to climb, leaves to jump in, creeks for throwing rocks. Check out this beautiful family…we had a great time getting to know each other.
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Two months into my busiest season, I have finally focused my camera on teens. I started the fall at a lower vantage point, shooting a slideshow for the nursery school my kids went to eons ago, and then images for a directory for our neighborhood elementary school. Kids' faces are so smooth — no wrinkles — and big — their eyes pop out of their heads. I love the expressions they make, their banter, as they navigate through their first social interactions. Pushing, pulling, sharing, grabbing, jumping, dancing, stretching, throwing, balancing, pouring water through funnels, and sand through hourglasses. It's all so interesting to go backwards in time and see the world through the eyes of children, they are so new to forming impressions. And then to come out the other side again, where the kids are rocking…what a blast!
Teenagers are great to shoot, and it is especially fun to point a camera at them when they're supposed to be behaving seriously. The principal of our local middle school asked me to take pictures of all the teachers, and when I walked into each classroom, without fail, at least five kids zeroed in on me, grabbing my attention, making faces, waving their arms, and shouting commands begging me to focus on them.
I found my favorite spot, just as I was leaving – the stairwell, and I'm planning to go back next week to catch some more kids as they move through their day.
Working at schools is energizing because you see the obvious — those hyperactive, attention-getting teens, but you also find the quiet ones whose intensity captures your imagination.
And of course, the teachers are the core of the school…you'll see the principal and her staff, too.
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