Sometimes I wonder, as I think all artists do, why we bother doing what we do. Does anyone really care one way or the other?

Then I see a moment like this. A souvenir of a proud moment for father and son sitting in front of a photo I made a year ago as they’d practiced, framed and part of an important memory for the two of them. I am grateful and humbled to have been permitted to witness and capture this moment for them.

THIS is why I got into photography.

THIS is why I pick up the camera.