Gary Briechle: Photographs

"The last time I photographed Arizona (an eight year-old girl that I've been photographing since she was one) I did what I always do: I taped a black Walmart sheet to the house, set the camera up on the tripod and got her to lean back with shoulders touching to steady herself. I usually put a little flower by the lens, so she can fix her eyes on something during the fifteen-secone exposure. This time, the end of October, it was a small, bright, red leaf.

A minute later, as I poured fixer over the glass, an image sppeared out of a swirl of watery blue-green. Even though I had done this countless times before, what I saw was an image I never saw before."