This was an interesting year. Busy.... extremely busy, but interesting. I recently was making a 2012 calendar for a family I photographed in the fall and this picture was chosen by them for their December photo and I thought it was perfect! We tend to look back at the year in December and this picture so perfectly says that. This made me realize even more than I did before that this family understands photography! To me we communicate so much in images that its disconcerting to see how so many people treat photography as such a whim and an unthought out reflex in this age of cell-phone-immediate posting to facebook-armlength snapshot photography. I know meaningful images are being made...but they are hard to find through all the noise from the inundation millions of photographs posted everyday. We maintain this blog of images and sometimes we feel like we're posting for the sake of posting, but we are confident that even when we miss the boat a little, we're not missing it entirely and am trying to post something that has meaning(Ok the picture of my dog the other day really was just for me--I love that little guy--and my mom!!!) This picture has meaning, and I don't think just to the family...it says something and has a quality to it that I hadn't really noticed myself before placing it on a page on a December calendar. Right now it is one of my favorite pictures of 2011. SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer.