‘It’s a fleeting moment in my daughter’s life’: Kelley Dallas’s best phone picture

The Colorado-based photographer on the importance of capturing the little things

It was only last year, but Kelley Dallas is already a little nostalgic for her daughter's time with her violin. Emmy, pictured here practising on her bedroom floor in the mid-morning light, had begun playing aged six, three years earlier.

The Colorado-based photographer has developed a careful eye for these shafts of light now, their ability to highlight a subject becoming something of a signature style for her. My eye has developed to seek these slices out, but they create extremes that an iPhone automatically tries to balance out," Dallas says. I didn't want that, so I manually brought down the exposure to correctly capture the shaft of light and to let the rest fall into shadow."