Looking at Work, Part 1 & 2

I love when someone seriously engages with my work. A look longer than the seven second stare.
Like this friend, right here. She's really looking at the photograph. She's taking in the details.

I had just taken some shots in an open field with 26 helium filled balloons. You can see the deflated, used and finished remains of the balloons in the this image -- they're beside her flowery pink shoe.

This lovely moment came yesterday at SECCA. My friend and fellow photog pictured here illuminates the sort of attention, the kind of looking that seems like connection. There is a difference between the glance and the look. A big one.
Looking is what photographers do, it's their language. To look is to read and to read is to see.