Painting is my daughter’s new obsession. She paints and paints these elaborate pictures for us all day. Yesterday, the United States of America with an elephant and some clouds. Today, a rainbow and a turtle. Tomorrow, who knows? I can’t wait to see what she’ll come up with.

I took this shot with my 50mm f/1.8 Lens on my Nikon D40x with the focus on the painting she was working on. I wanted to put the artist and her finished work out of focus enough that you noticed them only after you noticed her current masterpiece. I can’t possibly save them all, so photographing them will make me smile just as much years from now as I did today when she created these.