Purple Hour #6 Washington DC (2015)

When I created this piece, it was the first time I had intentionally included people in my images. Sounds a little silly to say, but before this, I would wait for the whole scene to be clear in order to capture a scene. I think when you're starting out in photography, you have this image inside your head of what it should look like. And when it doesn't go that way, it's hard to roll with the punches. At least that's what it was like for me. But if you have ever been to the cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, you know that is very hard to come by. I liked this image so much that it became the cover of the first book I ever published, Snap DC.