Why Pictures
Authenticity
I’ve loved photography for over fifty years.
Today, while walking with a friend, we passed a little girl riding a scooter beside her mom. She wore an oversized green helmet, slightly crooked, completely adorable.
She wasn’t “traditionally beautiful” in the polished, magazine-cover sense. She was something better. She was real. Fully herself.
I turned to my friend and said, That’s who I want to capture.
Authenticity.
Normally, I would use this moment to draw a parallel to Aikido. I would talk about presence, about removing excess, about allowing something genuine to appear.
But today, I don’t want to explain it.
I only want to say this: authenticity is enough.



Nothing more authentic than the loving eyes of your canine companion . . . .
Simple. Lovely.