I remember my mother reading to us girls for hours by the
creek as we sketched in our notebooks. My father told fantastic bedtime stories
that kept our imaginations awake all night. Wonderful and frightful worlds we
played in, our own Never Never Land. At least I think I remember or maybe they
are memories of memories. They are
as elusive as they are close, like a sound you have never heard and yet if you
were to hear it, you would recognize it.
It is the innocence of play
that inspired this shoot. The Millers were the perfect family for it. The
Miller kids Addie, Alan, Elias, Cora, and Thea (in age order) were great
troopers as we hiked to the location and played our way through the shoot. Marci Miller and I worked together to
find the perfect outfits and set ideas to create images that would ignite
imagination. Special thank to
Elizabeth Samuel for letting me dig through the basement of Thru the Lens Old West Photos, Annie
Brooks of Brumley and Wells for
letting me raid her closet and Nathan Schmidt for loaning me his prized book Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie.
