Parents
Valerie Mattinson and Graeme Mattinson, April 2024.
My parents dropped into the office unannounced. The light was good. I took a photo. It’s a simple photo, the kind that could have been taken with a phone. But factoring in the texture of the background, and the posing, and the light, and the foreground, and the framing, and the white balance shifts took about 7 years of photography obsession to get right/do deliberately. The hardest thing about photography is doing all the little things right, regardless of whether anyone else notices these little things or not.