Heather Goodbread

The other day I was flipping through a book that is now at the top of my “Next to Read” list,  Starting your Career as a Freelance Photographer by Tad Crawford. He described what it means to him about creating images. I was so overwhelmed by this explanation it wraps up everything that I feel when I have captured “The Picture”!  Honestly I feel in love with his description that I had to stop everything and copy it down. Tad Crawford’s quote sums up exactly what I aim for in my photographs, I try to capture the ones that are uniquely that person.

“I make images. I show people things. I capture their emotion and expressions, their      memories their past, the things they love.”

John & Tonia Balboa

This photo was taken a while back at Swing Soulstice of Tonia and John, two of my favorite dancers (and leads ), they both share an obsessive love for Balboa. I feel that this picture perfectly  expresses their adoration for the dance. When I showed Tonia the picture the first thing she noticed was that she was biting her lip in the picture, something so small I would never have caught. Yet  she does this when she is enjoying she is doing in the moment. Again something so small but absolutely makes this picture.