Rio de Janeiro. Children’s day during Carnaval at the Sambadromo. These young girls were simply waiting to join the parade and their mother put them in front of the wall for a portrait. I was going to shoot one and then the other, then saw this. One of 22 picture choices of my Brazil work on special sale until tonight at midnight. Over. Until then for $125. you may own an archival pigment 6×9 image size (on 8.5×11 paper) signed front and back. Go to my link in profile here or to Burnmagazine.org I cannot ever make for sale these images in this size ever again. So limited by sale time and size. My finest exhibition printer Mike Courvoisier is making every print. Free shipping inside US. Flat rate international. One of the things i love about a life in photography is the constant discoveries daily. I literally don’t even have close to any two days being alike. I get out of the taxi and before me are these children getting made up and then this seemingly simple activity changes your life. A few intense seconds turns into a pleasant people to people exchange. Then a photo . Then a print . Then a book. Then a big print on a museum wall and all I did was get out of a taxi with no clue what I would see in the next miliseconds. Magic. Miracle. Revelation. Best drug out there. All comes from the wellspring of total openness. At least that’s how I play it. #rio #brazil #carnaval