Back in Seattle

After a very, very long and tiring day, we arrived back in Seattle at midnight yesterday. Our connecting flight from Detroit was three hours late – due to an emergency on the incoming flight – so that the whole journey from Akron to Cleveland, then via Detroit to Seattle took us nearly 14 hours. Well, the twins took it with a lot of imperturbability and the young parents coped well with feeding and nappies changing in public places and airports.





And I guess the young family is glad to be back home, starting their normal daily life/routine and bonding now.



I have now got a lot of material for the story and will soon be starting the daunting task of editing (while still continuing shooting parts of the story). I have been shooting this story for almost two weeks now and apart from showing some images to Peter and Frans, I have not had any feedback on my images. So to speak, I have been stewing in my own juice for a while and would not mind to have some kind of outside “sanity check” whether this is moving in the right direction and which parts might still be missing. But I guess that will have to wait until I get home. I understand that even seasoned photojournalists get to this point at some stage.

I am also tempted to give the young family a few days of breathing space from the ever-present photographer, literally documenting every fart and burp :-) So I might head to Vancouver or Portland for a few days on my own.