Baby number four : Otis

Up in the trees.

Claire Cottrell - Apiece Apart

Apiece Apart and Dôen

Mother Nature

la Bretagne

"I am standing upon the seashore.  A ship, at my side, spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts for the blue ocean.  She is an object of beauty and strength.  I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. 
Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."  Gone where?  Gone from my sight.  That is all.  She is just as large in mast, hull and spar as she was when she left my side.  And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.  Her diminished size is in me - not in her.  And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone," there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" - Henry Van Dyke

Letter to my daughter

52 / 52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

A pensive Anya started and finishes the 52 project.

51 / 52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Soon.

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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Anya.

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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Joseph: watching Christmas films on the telly.

Only three more weeks until the end of the project. I more or less decided soon into it that I would only do one year. It was almost a test that I set myself and I'm proud to have persisted every week. I desperately wanted to get out of the instagram-style way of picture taking ("just smell that flower there Anya"), to take photos of the kids spontaneously without them noticing as well as only using my camera on manual mode. But a year is enough and I'd prefer picture-taking to be totally spontaneous without the weekly pressure. Yet...I can't wait to go back over the 52 photos I've taken and give myself a pat on the back :)

48 / 52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Anya: getting in the gifting mood; she has spent the last 2 days making bracelets for her friends.

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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2015."

Joseph: a little bowl licker - the best part of making chocolate cake.