There are all kids of good photos, but one of my favorites – and it is a rare photo for me – is what I call a tableau picture. It captures a place or moment or feeling. This morning, Maria was out in the grass taking one of her meditation videos – the tall grass blowing in the wind. Fate is very close to Maria, she is mostly her dog, and she has the gift great dogs have of sensing the moment and entering it without disrupting it.

Fate, an intensely active dog, came over and lay down next to Maria as she took the video and lay still. I loved the image, it captured the connection between them and the connection of each of them to the other. I deliberately overexposed it a bit and used my Petzval 58 lens, the Russian glass.