Mint

They call the Florida Gulf Shore, the Emerald shore...and there is parts that are emerald green, but here the ocean looks mint to me. 

I love going to the beach, to hear the waves hitting the shore line, the grand feeling of endlessness, the serenity...It's really not a vacation for me unless the beach is involved...

I was taking family portraits on the beach and I was just getting frustrated because they were not coming out like I envisioned...(anybody ever have that problem?). I kept telling the kids not to get themselves full of sand and not to look like they were squinting and it was humid, my camera was just not reading the right exposure and I had just given up. I started walking up towards the house, Sophia went to kick up the sand and she was walking by the shore. I looked back and I thought she was just beautiful with her white dress against the color of the water.

When she saw me coming, she hurriedly tried to get the sand off her leg but I told her to just do whatever she wanted and this is the image I got...still a little posed...(I mean can you blame her, I had just been telling her how to pose) but still the best sincere smile of the whole shoot....

by the mint water...