September 2026 · Roseville, California

Mostly off the ground

I photographed this family of three in Roseville in September 2026. The frames are set around a pond with reeds and willows along its edge. There is a field of dry grass, a paved path, an oak, and houses on the hill across the water. The sun is low and warm in most of them. You can see it in the long shadows on the path and in the light caught in the mother’s hair.

Their daughter is off the ground in a lot of these. Her parents swing her between them by the hands, her boots clear of the grass. She sits on her father’s shoulders with her hands clasped under his chin while he holds her legs. In one frame she is in the air above him with her hair flying, and he reaches up with his face turned toward hers.

Some frames are quieter. She and her father touch foreheads, both smiling with their eyes nearly shut. Under a willow, her mother holds her and watches her laugh into her fists. All three lean together against the trunk of an oak and look straight at the camera.

By the pond, her father holds her on his hip and kisses her mother, and she grins down the lens. The page ends with the three of them hand in hand, facing the water, both parents looking back over their shoulders.

Laughing parents swing their daughter between them by the hands, her brown boots off the ground, in a dry grass field in front of a willow and a pond.

The father, mother and daughter sit pressed close against the trunk of an oak, their heads stacked one above the other, all three smiling at the camera.

Seen from behind, the mother and father hold hands while their daughter in a floral dress and cowboy boots walks ahead of them down a paved path crossed by long shadows, toward a bench under a tree.

The father grins at the camera with his daughter on his shoulders, her hands clasped under his chin and his hands holding her legs, while the mother leans in beside him on a path through dry grass with an oak and blue sky behind.

The daughter up in the air above her father's head, laughing with her hair flying out, as he reaches up to her with both hands in a sunlit field below a line of oaks.

The father and daughter touch foreheads, both smiling with their eyes nearly closed, her hand gripping the front of his green corduroy shirt.

The father, holding his daughter on his hip, kisses the mother while the girl grins at the camera, beside a reedy pond with houses on the hill behind.

With their backs to the camera, the parents hold their daughter's hands between them in dry grass facing a reed-lined pond, both looking back over their shoulders and smiling.

Mostly off the ground

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