I spent a couple weeks back in Tucson, my home town, at the end of January into February. It was not due to positive reasons, my father quickly became very ill with Pancreatitis and then passed away a couple weeks later. It was a blessing to have the career I do and be able to create the time to head back home and be with my siblings during this time and simply to be with my father for the last days of his life. I will share more later on capturing the details that made up my father's life in so many ways.

Anyway these two trips to Tucson also allowed me to spend a little more time with dear old friends and I had the pleasure of creating photographs of this lovely child, Willow, the 8 month old daughter of one of my best friends since high school. All the living and dying moments that I observed combining during my time back home reminded me yet again that it is so important to beautifully and artistically document these moments as the photographer I am. And this feels even more emphatic after just returning from two weeks of photographing medical clinics in northern Haiti.

So here is a glimpse at Willow in her stunning beauty.

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