Being a child of divorce, my first and foremost concern when my wife and I separated was the effect on my relationship with my 3-year-old son. Although different circumstances prevail, I still compare and contrast our situation and environment to mine at that age. I'm now remarried with a 3-year-old daughter, struggling to find a balance in our time as a family for those bi-weekly 48 hours. Trying to maximize our time together comes natural, an effortless and critical part of every day. I don't do it to compensate for my father's mistakes, but I see more clearly what I missed and I strive to never let him feel the vacuum I did. An ongoing series of photographs, Alternating Weekends is my attempt to capture the beauty, humor, magic and pain I find in his youth and in our relationship as father and son. I prefer to use toy cameras when photographing my son. The cameras themselves can seem silly and trivial, letting my son relax and be natural. The lack of control and inherent flaws in these plastic gems echo the chaos and imperfection of youth, but yield a soft and dream-like quality to these glimpses of our interactions.