Greetings, everyone!  My name is Jason, and I am a photographer.

(Hi, Jason.)

Being a photographer and a geek, I’m something of a mad scientist.  I’m always fooling around with different lights and modifiers.  Naturally, I prefer to do my funky experiments on friends and family before I try them out on paying clients.  This presents an issue.  My wife, although stunningly beautiful, doesn’t like to be photographed unless she’s had time to do her hair and makeup.  This does not mesh well with my ad-hoc fooling around.  That leaves me with one and only one subject: Benjamin, my two-year old.

My boy doesn’t mind being photographed at all.  In fact, he quite enjoys it, and especially enjoys seeing the results on the back of my camera and on the computer.  Unfortunately, the one thing that he won’t do is sit still for two seconds in order for me to actually take the photo.  Somehow, somewhere in the deep recesses of his brain, he knows exactly how long it takes for my lens to focus, because just as focus is achieved, he runs madly out of the viewfinder, either to look at the photo that I haven’t yet taken or to do whatever else it is that commands the gnat-like attention of a two year old.

Occasionally though, he’ll sit still for two seconds and you get something like this:

My son Benjamin looking over his left shoulder in a moody, hard-light portrait