I just love what hands can say within a portrait. If the hands are all by themselves, like the first image below, you can tell a full story of the 4 generations represented here of all these wonderful women and women to be…Grandma, Mom, daughters, granddaughter and great-grand daughter. Then you have all seen the ring photographs of the bride and groom where it tells the story of their new life beginning together and what the rings symbolize. There are other types of images, like the full image of a group where the family members are all touching each other in a very loving, relaxed way. And the daddy holding his newborn son, the size of the dad’s hands so protective and just a peek of the newborn’s tiny hands One of my new favorites is of this image below of a young girl. The pose, the touch of makeup and the expression all speak of a budding teenager, but not quite. The soft child like hands tell that this young woman has a little while to go before she truly enters the next stage of her life. Some of my favorite images.
