
My niece, Julia Brooke Foy, was born October 3, 1997. She and loved ones celebrated her 12th birthday today with a party at her home. Here she is in her newborn picture and in a recent school picture.
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."— Susan Sontag