"a door closes and a window opens somewhere"

Is what my grandmother always says.
My life seems to be taking me in a new direction right now.
Where it's going I am not quite sure.
Scary, exciting, stressful.
Hell ya!
But I have never been on to back down in the face of adversity.
This to will pass.

Making miso

Nathan sniffing kombu.

2011's Angel

There are some things you get the opportunity to shoot over and over again as a newspaper photog. The first baby of the new year is one of those and it forces you to make something different from year to year and it never ceases to amaze me that people let you experience/photograph these private moments. You can read the article here by Ashley Gebb.

Crystal Pitts, 28, holds newborn Angeline Jean Henderson, the first baby of the year, with big sister Nyla Pitts, 8, and father Anthony Henderson, 22, all residents of Olivehurst, Saturday afternoon at Fremont-Rideout Hospital, on Plumas Street in Yuba City on Jan. 1, 2011.