Week 6 - Glad [Jeannette]

Glad.

Thinking about glad, I wanted to do eyes. Eyes relay gladness perhaps more than anything else, even as much as smiles. A fake smile can be attempted, but radiant eyes are inimitable.

I don't know if that's actually true, but it sounds smart.

Really I wanted to do eyes, because when I thought of glad, a picture I had taken last summer came to mind. That is kind of funny, since when I actually saw the picture, I realized you can't really see her eyes. Anyway, this to me summarizes glad.

But of course I needed to take some this week. The eye ones I tried to take didn't work out as I had visualized them because I needed to get closer than my 50mm lens could.

 So I had to think of something else, though they do look glad, don't they?

Then, the next day I went to Kid's Club. I took a picture of a kid, and suddenly I realized: of course. Kid's Club. What better place to take glad pictures?

Few things are as glad as kids.

Few things make me more glad than Kid's Club.

I'm sorry; there are a lot this week. How can you not include kids?

As soon as I had taken this picture, I knew it epitomized gladness. It's written all over her face.

Isn't she adorable? Don't you just have to stare at that picture a couple times? I never get tired of it.

The following picture is blurry, I know, but she was so joyfully bouncing, with such gladness I couldn't resist.

I know there are other, more creative ways to portray gladness, but to me, a face is what comes to mind. It is humans who are glad, and the face that demonstrates that joy.

Three more glad kids: