I would like to thank the Mathile Family Foundation for using my photograph “Holding Hands by the Miami River” in their 2020 annual report. I was walking along the RiverScape Metro park during the summer as the sun was going down and decided to turn around. Most of the time I will take landscape photographs with the sun to my back and not look directly into the sun. I was lucky to capture a family, Mom, Dad and child, holding hands, seemingly care free as they walk along the river. This is one of my more successful images of downtown Dayton because I was able to include people to add a sense of scale. I love the blue river next to the green grass and the wrong lines that are created by the shadows, the pilers and the people.
