Portraits are windows into the subject - they are also canvases on which the inner paints its delight, and that is what the camera captures if the photographer is fortunate...

I love seeing these paintings on the faces of my subjects - it is what makes it all an adventure each time I put the viewfinder up to my eye...

Teiya is the newest and youngest of my grandchildren - she is gaining on her brother and cousins in her time in front of the camera, however, and even as a novice is as pretty as a picture...