Allison and I have been close since our twenties. When she started having kids, we were both living in Colorado Springs, so I was there within days of each birth, camera in hand. 

She's since moved to a farm in upstate New York, we visit anytime I get a layover in Albany. Her daughter caught the best of the afternoon light first, turning in profile in a warm window glow, before Allison joined her for a cheek-to-cheek frame that's pure, easy joy between the two of them. Outside, the wind picked up and her daughter's hair went wild mid-laugh against a backdrop of trees, and by the end her little brother couldn't resist climbing onto a log to join her, the two of them finishing the afternoon together.

Nothing here was staged. It's just what happens every day in their beautiful home.