Portraits don’t have to mean smiles

A quiet moment

The best portraits capture authentic emotions and moments, and many shots that people react to most strongly are not the typical smiling faces.  A child — or teen, or adult — caught in a moment of thought, daydreams, or even reacting to obviously unfair parental scolding,  often provokes the reaction, “Oh — I know that face!”

Daydreams

Real life means tired moments, too.

Young James Dean??

"No ball throwing in the house"? -- Not happy with that.

Getting silly with the girls…

… is there anything more fun than this?  These girls were so sweet, giggly and just fantastic to play with and photograph.  Take a look:

Of course, we also got to some quieter moments.   I’ll post some of those next time.  But whenever I look at these, I just have to grin.  Tell me the truth — don’t these make you smile, too?