On Photography

Proud Moment
Originally uploaded by slightly-less-random.

Something I like about practicing photography is being able to be there when someone achieves something great, and it shows. Like my brother here, who has been working very hard for two years to get closer to his goal of a black belt in Don Jitsu Ryu. He's perhaps half way since the hard work truly begins when you achieve the belt just below black, brown, as he did. (He didn't get to actually posses the belt until today.) It might not seem this way from the photograph, but the older man pictured here has a very commanding presence and it was quite intimidating to take his picture, even with Lucas there.