Alice

I have known Alice ten or twelve years now. She was the school librarian. We’ve laughed together and retired a year apart. We traveled to a conference together. We have sat and talked, joked and pontificated. We have come together over Happy Hour or a simple staff potluck. Hopefully, she has enjoyed me as much as I have enjoyed her.

This weekend she put her family in front of my camera.  I had met Marty, her husband, and tried to imagine the look of them standing side by side because she is definitely short next to him. I felt comfortable when their children and grandchildren gathered at the Mesa Arts Center and let me aim my camera at them.

Any photographer likes an opportunity to take an extended family such as theirs. When a group is as friendly and flexible as this and there are grandchildren among the crowd, it is so easy to have a fun experience.  I never walk away without having learned something new.