To me a picture isn't just a record of how someone looks, but it should convey what they are feeling at the moment as well. I joke about not taking posed pictures, I do take them, but nearly everytime I do I feel as though I'm missing something so much better. Usually the posed picture is followed by a genuine exchange between the people posing, so I shoot the posed picture and then drop my camera long enough for the subjects to know I 'm done and then raise it back up again to catch the real moment. These two photographs from my niece's are two totally different emotions captured, but both have emotion captured and we can either wonder what they are reacting to or thinking, or if we were there we can remember it more clearly seeing the expressions on the faces. Moments Thats what recording life is about. Photographs by Uncle Dick