The theme for this week’s photography challenge on our 52-week journey, is appropriately titled, love, having just celebrated Valentine’s Day. My photo demonstrates the love that exists between brothers.  My middle son was home most of this week battling a flu-like virus, so he and his baby brother spent lots of time together. It is so sweet to witness the pure love and worship-like adoration a younger brother has for his older brother. Jack just adores Luke and follows him around wanting to be just like him. I loved this moment because Luke was reading a favorite book to Jack and it was just perfect. These are the moments that I am so grateful to have my camera close by. It’s the closest I can ever get to stopping time…even if for a brief moment.

You can hop on over to Jenn’s blog to see the love she captured with her camera.

I am really enjoying this personal photography journey I am taking with 17 fellow photographers. I like the push and motivation it gives me to think and contemplate my image for each week’s prompt. This week was a bit tough for me. The prompt was signs. I initially thought of street signs, store signs, sign language, the peace sign, etc. but I just couldn’t formulate an idea of an image I wanted to take. Then I talked to my mom on the phone from Florida on my son Luke’s birthday and my mom was crying and having a bad day…she is homesick. She lives in Florida for the winter with her husband and struggles with the fact that all of her 6 children and 7 grandchildren are back here in Western New York. I felt so sorry for her and our conversation weighed heavily on my heart. So I decided to take the literal meaning of the word sign and photograph my boys with a sign for Grandma. The boys had a snow day on Wednesday, so it was the perfect opportunity to get them together and snap a photo for Grandma and my photography challenge. We will send this to Grandma for Valentine’s day…I think it will cheer her up!

I am really looking forward to visiting all the other blogs in this circle and see what each of them photographed for signs. I hope you can too; you can start by checking out Jenn’s blog.