As one of the decluttering jobs I’ve been working on, I’m going through the stacks of picture back-up CDs that have accumulated the last few years. I really like this picture of my nephew Lawrance.

I loved it two and a half years ago when it was first taken, but I never dreamed at the time that I would someday call myself a photographer. I’ve always believed in dreaming big…I think. I’m kind of seeing that I like to dream, but I don’t really expect most of my dreams to come true. Maybe I won’t completely disown the idea of becoming an international photojournalist. For now I’m so very happy that portrait photography has changed from dream to reality for me.