TITLE: "Generations"

After touring the Topaki Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, I was waiting for my husband by this fountain. The young girl spotted me taking a photo and joyfully smiled, ran toward me and playfully opened her arms. Her childhood openness and energy clashed dramatically with the closed, veiled burqas worn by the older women.

AUTHOR: Dolores Smart (United States)

I've been a photographer for over 30 years, largely self-taught. A photography course when I returned to college after my children had grown, changed the course of my life. I worked as a graphic designer and photographer for a large, non-profit retirement home for over 20 years. I've taught photography to children and older adults and the community at large. Now retired and living in magnificent Santa Fe, New Mexico, I volunteer my time at Camp Corazones, a summer camp for children infected/affected by HIV Aids.
Photography still holds the same enchantment and challenge for me as it did so many years ago. I'm so grateful for discovering this elusive, life-enriching medium -- I will always doggedly strive to be better than my last photograph. That's my blessing and my curse!
Dolores Smart