When I was a little kid, I had a Snoopy pillow.

It was a round pillow with Snoopy on the front, and another picture of Snoopy on the back.

I went everywhere with it. It was ratty and it was ugly and it was old, but I didn’t care; I loved it. We were inseparable. I had it for years.

But as is always the case when you are a kid, the things you hold dear change as you get older​…​eventually my Snoopy pillow was replaced by cub scouts, model airplanes, pen and ink drawing and, later, photography.

Sometimes when I’m at my Mom’s place and I flip through the old photos, I catch a glimpse of that pillow and I am instantly transported back to a time of training wheels on red Raleigh bicycles and jammies with built-in feet.

This is what I want my photography to bring to you and your family: memories not only of what your kids were like at that age, but the things that were important to them. So that, years from now, when your son or daughter returns home for a visit and comes across a photo of their Snoopy pillow, they will be taken back to a time in their lives that maybe had been forgotten, or was at least a dim memory…until a photo I created brings it all back into focus.

The quest for these future memories — yours and theirs — is why I am a photographer.