This picture was made in Italy (Abruzzo) in July. We went there for the holidays. This is my daughter Valerie. She is 6 years old and she learned to swim this past winter. Now she swims like a fish and enjoys it very much.

I was taking a picture of my Grandson and our cat jumped in unexpectedly. 

This photo comes from Georgia, where we know how to grow watermelons. Our 1 year old loved sitting for this photo--we were having a record breaking heatwave.

I took this photo just at sunset at the Florida State Fair.

This is my favorite pinhole photo I've shot. It pulls in all the elements I love about pinhole...muted, yet infinite focus, vignette, motion blur and stretching corners. And the subject is my daughter, which moves it from "pretty good" to "pretty perfect" for me. I shot it in May, 2013 while on holiday in Amelia Island, Florida. It encapsulates all that I love, my family, pinhole photography, and travel.

This is a picture of my daughter doing the "Nestea Plunge" in our pool. It is a beautiful picture that represents childhood summer fun!

This is my son. It was over 100 degrees that day, and he was cooling off by riding his motocross bike through the mud. He had so much fun covered in all that mud!

The Seattle Center Fountain is our kids favorite place to cool off.  Everybody seems to cool off in the Seattle Center Fountain on a hot sunny afternoon.

Emily and Olivia are 5 year old twin sister who love to play in the water bit wait do chores.. unless we make rhise chores fun and exciting like having them wash their bikes with hose or perhaps each other!

Against the setting sun, a skilled surfer creates a golden wave pattern.

A rare hot day in upstate N.Y. -- and both of the kids needed to cool off!

Ice cream with friends is always the best.

My girls playing in the pond at Nana's house.

My daughter received the rain gear for her birthday and couldn't wait to use it. She was so excited to finally get the chance! 

A father and son day out has been forever captured with this amazing shot. Summer sunsets are amazing, especially at the most southern tip of Ontario: Point Peter

This was taken on the Manhattan Bridge, July 2011 - while walking on a breezy evening, viewfinder and shutter driven. Alicia's smile has quite an effect on me. She reminds me how beautiful thoughts can be in New York, and why I came here in the first place.

I'm a film photographer, recently I bought a 30mm for my medium format camera and this was the very first frame.  The lens is so huge that my 1-year-old was fascinated by it. I was able to capture a frame of her at her most inquisitive. She NEVER sits still so this is a rare and special picture for me. I see in this one frame all the excitement and intrigue of her youth. 

This is a picture of a dear friends daughter. I took this on July 29th, 2011 on Two Lick Lake, Indiana, PA. Quinn is jumping of the front of my boat. We try and include as many family and friends to enjoy the boating season. This was taken with my KODAK CAMERA....Love it....

This is a picture of my daughter this last 4th of July. It was also my birthday.

This is a photo of my brother, who lives in Charlotte, NC., taken during a very hot July day at his neighborhood pool. The photo captures him as he descends off a waterslide with a giant splash and a big smile. A father of 4 girls, including 2 teenagers, I was so tickled to have captured this youthful side him as it is a reminder to us all to stay forever young at heart.

This image was taken in July at Chicago's Navy Pier. I was watching the children enjoying themselves on the ride and thought that I would capture their happiness.

This is a special picture, which shows action, youth, health, color and more. I like the hand reaching forward. I took this shot of my daughter couple years ago in a swimming pool.

This picture is special because it shows my funny and playful puppy enjoying cooling off on a very hot day in New Orleans this past June. The picture put the day in perspective--the weather was unreasonably hot and I was happy to capture the image of my Miki doing what we would all wished we could do on such a hot day.

Granddaughter playing in grass before she could walk.