I’ve been doing some house cleaning in Lightroom recently. This has included, among other things, work on keywords. In doing so I have come up with my next series of posts! I know, it’s been a while.

This series will be based on a keyword or two that begins to identify an image for me when I need to locate it in my files. Whether I need it for a notecard, wall hanging, or whatever, it’s important to be able to locate the image I need among the 145 plus thousand images filed neatly (and sometimes not so neatly) away on my hard drive.

This week’s keyword is…hands. Below you will find a few images and the story behind the image. Here we go, in no particular order.

Last September I had the great pleasure of being a photo guide with Arizona Highways Photo Scapes in Chama, New Mexico. They have a small gauge steam engine that runs out of there, similar to the famous Silverton, CO train. These hands belong to a train worker I spotted at our lunch stop. He was sitting and chatting with fellow workers, on break before taking us back to Chama.

I was doing a family portrait session in Flagstaff one day. Mom/Grandma arrived adorned with this beautiful jewelry. Before we got started I asked her to pose for a quick shot.

I was visiting my sister and her family in Florida a few years ago shortly after her youngest was born.  We did a family shoot and came up with this idea.

One of my favorite high school senior photo sessions produced this beautiful image.

Kids stayed entertained with chalk at a chess tournament when I was coaching and photographing the game at Killip years ago. I walked by and this child didn’t want their picture taken so I photographed the raised hands instead. Thanks, kid! lol

Walking up Antelope Canyon from Lake Powell we came across someone’s muddy hand prints on the sandstone.

It’s a long story but these are the hands of my brother’s grandfather working on his tractor on his farm in Nebraska.

In 2018 my wife and I flew to Nepal to hike to Everest Base Camp. These hands belong to a local we came across along the way.

More mud art I found on a tree in Sedona!