{a confession}

I have watched General Hospital. A lot of General Hospital. Oh, there are the excuses: When my sister and her friend Carin (yes, I am calling you out) were in junior high, and I was a measly sixth grader, they got home first from school, and thus controlled the remote. Then I went to college. And who has time to watch tv in college? Well, seniors who were waaaay to ambitious in their first 7 semesters and only needed 5 credits to graduate, that's who. My next foray was actually the best excuse. When my grandfather passed away, I decided to live with my grandmother for a summer and guess what she watched? Telenovelas, that's what. LOTS of them. Most were in Spanish, but she also indulged religiously in GH. Yup, we bonded over Anna and Robin and Felicia and... So all of this is to explain why I was so darn excited to shoot this family. Cause Daddy--who was visiting his sister here in NY--is a General Hospital director! How cool is that? He gets to hang with Sonny and Jason and Alexis (love her!) all day long. And get paid. He was not only not weirded out by my geeky admission, he was super sweet about it. Not surprising considering he's the brother of one of my nicest clients. So it was a pleasure to capture this photo, one of my favorite family photos ever.