Kara (my wife) and Maren (my stepdaughter) were busy making all kinds of Christmas goodies. While sitting at my computer I was overcome with the smell of cinnamon rolls, Christmas cookies and the like. Not being able to participate in any other way I grabbed my camera. I started by just looking through the viewfinder at the various ‘goodies’. Since the sun was shining in the living room I grabbed a table and located it in the sunlight and started moving the trays of cookies into the sunlight. Then I grabbed a reflector to bring some light into the shadows. Pretty soon I felt like I was part of the festivities.
Later I looked at the photos on my computer screen and wondered ‘why did I spend so much time taking pictures of cookies?’. I realize now that it wasn’t about Christmas cookies :-)