Skeeter Hagler

Lately, I have been very fortunate to meet and spend a little time with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Skeeter Hagler. He is a kind, busy man, with faraway eyes, who disappears behind his camera so that you don't even notice he is following you around and taking pictures.

At one event, I mentioned a photo of his I had admired. At the next, he surprised me with a signed copy.

I have put it on my desk at work. It is exactly the kind of scene I can sink into for escape. I like that you can see my reflection in the frame--I am part of the environment. But I like, even more, that the rising sun is exactly where my heart should be. I'll spare you the bad poetry.