I love people.  Who are my favorite people?  Usually the people who are with me at any given moment.  That’s one thing I love about pictures: it allows me to have the people I love nearby all the time.  I have a simple, black-and-white canvas gallery wrap of each of my children next to my desk while I work.  While the pictures can’t replace them, they do constantly remind me of their character traits and the reasons I love them so much.  My fingers can’t reach them to pinch their little cheeks, but my heart can.

This morning I was out with the Sanchez family, enjoying a crisp, beautiful autumn morning.  Nature briefly pulled back her veil for us, and we enjoyed a nice morning playing near brilliant leaves and enjoying family relationships.  I like the picture below because it illustrates relationships in two planes: the first and more obvious is cute little Logan playing with grandma.  (Yes, Veronica is a grandma, even though she looks too young.)  And the second layer is the relationship that is happening in the background: more of a real-life adult-type interaction.  This second layer isn’t featured in pictures very often, and indeed in this case it was a bit of an artifact.  I knew I was making it, but I’m afraid my subjects weren’t aware they were going to be in the picture.  I’m glad it happened, though, because the shared time and space are just as much a testament to a family’s love as the smiling, playful baby.  Thanks, Sanchez family, for a fun morning and for letting me into your family relationships!