I am particularly fond of this photo of a little boy---my stepson, actually---which I took at Fort Island Gulf Beach almost 9 years ago. I love the earnest, dedicated expression on his face and the combination of the primary colors in his shorts and shirt with the green bucket and blue-green hat. It was one of my late husband's favorite photos.
This particular long-ago little Floridian (he is in his teens now) was having a wonderful time scooping up water from the gulf and using it to make a moat around the sand castle he was constructing with his sister. He stumbled into the foreground of a landscape photograph I hadn't intended anyone to occupy, but in the end turned out to be the one thing that made the photo worth keeping. I don't usually take photographs for general display with people in them (at least, not intentionally) but sometimes they turn up in the photo and end up being the main interest.
Because this is really just a detail from a larger photo, the quality ain't great, even by my amateur's standards. Never mind; as in so much else in life, it's the thought that counts!
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