When parents talk about having a child who is ill or struggling, nonparents often take the wrong message. They think, Thank God I was spared all that pain. If I can’t order up the precise specifications for my child, the condition in which he emerges, the choices he’ll make, if I can’t be assured that he’ll skirt the dangers that await him, maybe it’s better not to have children at all.
Those of us who know the airless terror of the 10 steps between the second you first glimpse your child’s surgeon through the glass doors and the moment he’s standing in front of you, delivering the verdict—we don’t think this way. Each time one of ours is ill or in pain, we think, Thank God I am here for him.
Nothing trite about these photos, esp. the first one.
Barbara – Thanks kindly.
You do manage to catch them when they are not being “merely” beautiful. Although capturing their beauty is surely also worthy of your time and of ours. Your attention to details, background colours, contrasts of colour and shape, and peculiarities all contrive to make your photos engaging.
Laurna – Thanks! I think that I take photos intuitively, and might be a more reliable photographer if I had some structure around the points you describe – so I’d know what I was looking for/at, if you see what I mean.