Press Democrat photographer Beth Schlanker’s photographs of the yr

Editor’s word: At the top of every yr, we ask The Press Democrat photographers to provide us with their favourite selections for photographs of the yr. This yr’s picks characteristic pictures of the non secular, the bizarre and the once-in-a-lifetime. Almost all the selections included kids, as Beth Schlanker explains.

The response on the faces of the youngsters let free on a heat June day on the new water park in Santa Rosa summed up completely what it means to be a child, the pure pleasure and pleasure of that second on a summer season day. It’s in such distinction with a special summertime ceremony of passage, the Sonoma County Fair, the place goodbyes after the livestock public sale are sometimes tearful ones.