Jake, you are a boy of few words, yet your face says so much and you wear your emotions and feelings all over your face, literally. While everyone else is just giving a standard boring camera smile, you communicate so much more with your face.

You are now entering the phase of your life when I am most often banned from taking photos, so this is a memory capsule to remember the hundreds of times I have captured Jake being Jake. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, and you have spoken millions of words. Others may comment that you don’t speak much, but in a world where so many voices are shouting louder and louder to be heard, you are the quiet one who says so much by being exactly who you are.