Marcelas Owens

When I met him a couple of years ago I could instantly see that his sisters looked up to him and his grandmother adored him. Today, all of us can adore and look up to Marcelas Owens!!!

mama! papa!

I don't always realize where inspiration comes from until later. These illustrations are from two of my favorite books as a young child. I hadn't realized until recently that Maurice Sendak was so directly influenced by Winsor MCCay!

African American Partners in Prosperity (AAPP)
Power Lunch

Virginia, an 82 year old woman who lives in CHHIP.

I had a nice time visiting her last week.

And, I'm in love with color film today.

Klara and her "you are here" open house project.

Addie.

such a graceful little boy.

I'm ovulating

This still makes me laugh.

A boy and his dog.
I like both of their faces.

I didn't take the original photo, that was probably 25 years ago. Claire asked me to rephotograph her family as in the original photo. The four of them live in three different cities, it was a busy weekend and her mother was leaving early the next day. The photo session was almost canceled but did take place on a Sunday evening in a vacant lot across from Claire's apartment. I'm so glad we made it happen.

Happy Birthday Mars.
september 10, 2009.
It's a beautiful Fall day.

I just finished teaching 85 hours of digital photography to teenagers at Coyote Central. The students were great and excited to learn and gave me some new ideas about how to teach and how to take photos. for more information on Coyote and Fall classes look here - http://www.coyotecentral.org/

Now, I'm taking my kids and my camera and we're going to the beach for the rest of the month.

seattle's child magazine covers

I work for Seattle's Child magazine occasionally, I have the August cover this month. I need to get some handsome boys on there next time they ask!

16 year old cousins on the day before they left for theatre camp. I first met one she was 8 years old. I liked how these girls still like to dress up and climb trees and hold hands. beautiful.