In Your Eyes | Napa Children’s Photographer | Napa Black and White Photographer

I’m a photographer, I love people, I photograph people.  I’m also known as a children’s photographer and I love that association.  I tend to chatter a lot, and I’m trying not to here.  I want this to be brief and about the art.  The art of children, the art of photography, the art of really seeing someone.  Seeing them whether you’re with them for a number of hours, minutes, days.  Do you see them?  I was with this lovely little person last week photographing her expectant mother, and we’ll get to that in a few weeks when I’ve  had time to look it over, edit, etc.  But tonight, I just wanted to share this beautiful little person, this moment caught right here.  We were just goofing off when I took this image and it was a total distraction tactic on my part to get her to cooperate with what we were about to do next with her momma.  It was brief and it was beautiful.  You know what they say, life is what happens when you’re making plans.  As someone who has been photographing for a long time now, I know what I’m doing, I know that what I cherish most in shooting is the moments in between moments.  The in between places is where’s it’s at for me.  Ask anybody who’s worked with me, that’s where the magic is and that’s where I go.

Get lost in the magic that is this precious child.  She’s in her moment.  They’re fleeting and we’d better hang on or we’ll miss them.  Miss them as photographers, but most importantly as parents and people who appreciate the magic that is the child.  And, I mean no matter the age.  Hang on guys, enjoy it all.

‘In your eyes
the light the heat
in your eyes
I am complete
in your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
in your eyes
the resolution of all the fruitless searches
in your eyes
I see the light and the heat
in your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
the heat I see in your eyes’

Peter Gabriel