Karen Jacot / the blog

My brother and his girlfriend were in Houston over New Year’s, visiting from San Francisco, and while they were here they asked me to take some pictures of the two of them. We shot these on New Year’s Eve, about an hour before sunset, in Rice Village, a little shopping area next to Rice. I don’t usually photograph adults, and in some ways I find it harder than shooting kids because it can be harder to get them to relax and act natural and not look too stiff. (Hard for me, anyway–this is the area I most want to work on–making people feel relaxed in front of the camera so we can get photos that really show their personalities.) But in other ways, wow…people who do exactly what you ask! They move where you want them; they stay still when you want them to! It was a nice change of pace from chasing kids around.