One of my favorite aspects of photography is the ability to tell a story. A striking image is one thing, but if that image can draw you into the narrative that surrounds it then a whole other dimension is added. To immerse the viewer even further into the setting, a series of such photographs will add the dimension of time. It's my intention to every so often post a short story through images with a minimal amount of commentary. The first story I'll show you depicts my family's time at a "Fall Fest" put on by a local church. It features my two year-old toddler Mila, following her as she navigates a series of activities, facing challenges along the way:
We arrived early, so we kept Mila entertained by running along an orange meshed fence..
Ominous clouds threatened to pour down rain on us the entire time we were there...
Finally we were let in and Mila started off in one of the many of the bouncy houses...
We then moved on to get Mila a feline face...
Satisfied with her cat face, we could then go on to splash in the kiddie pool, sift through the corn kernel bin, and roll a few frames at the haystack-laned bowling alley and all the while a happy grandma watches on...
The highlight for Mila came when she experienced a S'more for the first time...
We'll conclude this segment with Mila taking on the big blowup slide, in which she gets to the top, questions the trip down, but gets a little help from some good Samaritans...
After that she got herself stuck in a blowup obstacle course so I had to put down my camera to go be a dad. Then the clouds opened up and we raced for the exit.