Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Photographing children always unnerves me. Something about the intensity of their eyes, the way they seem to see straight through you.

This photograph was just a quick shot grabbed during the wedding rehearsal last Friday. Although I was supposed to be photographing the wedding party, I found myself drawn to the bride’s three-year-old daughter, Skyler, and the way the setting sun was backlighting her hair.

I was trying to capture her laughing and playing, but somehow I managed to record something altogether different, something unreadable.

A part of me keeps looking at this photograph, wanting to like it, but I can’t. It just disturbs me somehow.

Music: “When I’m Gone” by 3 Doors Down (lyrics)

Pic of the day: “Skittles” by Brian at Panhandlin’.