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My absolute favorite thing to do is go through old photo albums, whether it’s when my great grandfather first walked out of the wedding chapel with my great grandmother, or when my older brothers were laughing so hard that water was coming out of their nose, or when my dad first proposed to my mom. Every moment is so precious that it is really sad when these moments aren’t documented. The timeless smiles that are just so pure and filled with complete joy where nothing else in the world can compare to this moment, right now.

What I try to do with each and every one of my images is to create a physical document that captures a moment in time so you can hold it forever on a 4x6 print. These images are of the people that I really hold close to my heart, and when they grow old, their children and grandchildren can see them when they were young and living a completely different life.

These pictures of timeless smiles aren’t the most “technically correct” photos when it comes to photography and its many rules, but they are the pictures that will last generations. These pictures of heartwarming expressions leave the viewer happy for days, they are made with patience to find those perfect glimpses of happiness. I hope you enjoy.

- Grace Elizabeth Greene

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n. The moment you realize that you’re currently happy — consciously trying to savor the feeling.

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n. The kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day, unremarkably.

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n. A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details.

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n. The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

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n. An emotion you haven’t felt in years that you might have forgotten about completely if your emotional playlist hadn’t been left on shuffle.

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n. A flash of real emotion glimpsed in someone sitting across the room, idly locked in the middle of some group conversation, their eyes glinting with vulnerability.

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n. The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable — their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque — as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.

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n. The awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience.

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n. The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.