I reconnected with an old friend a few weeks ago on Facebook (one of the wonderful things about social media). She happened to mention her son, Steven, was getting ready to graduate this year and was wanting some senior portraits taken. It seemed so strange to me that he could be ready to graduate already since I think he was about 12 or 13 the last time I had seen him. I was really looking forward to it, though, and was so excited that she asked me to do it. We had a great time… we took him out to the Arts Colony in Pomona and made him stand in a lot of seedy alleyways (not really, but it does make for a better story). Steven was very very patient with us as we drug him from one place to another. It was great to see what a terrific young man he has become, and a very talented musician as well.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another Faded & Blurred photo walk this weekend… this one to the Getty Center in LA. We were worried the rain would stick around since that was the forecast, but Frank said he called in some favors and we had beautiful skies all day.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
~ William Faulkner