I’m a big fan of small moments. A seeker of almost invisible truth. Let’s face it, that’s where most of us live - in the everyday, the mundane, the barely noticed. But that’s where the magic is.

As a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in Connecticut, I've  covered schools, politics, business, crime, sports, breaking news, you name it. Together, these are the small moments that tell the broader story - the story of a community and the people who call it home. Here are some of my favorite images taken over the years. Thanks for having a look.
Carol Kaliff
Young boys walk home from school in the pouring rain.  Father and son bow in reverence during an Eid prayer service marking the end of Ramadan.  <br>Firstcomers at the opening of the doors to the 58th Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair. Firefighters rescue a plane after the pilot experienced a rough landing at Danbury Airport. A young girl peeks up during a time of prayer at her  First Holy Communion mass.Dr. Nelphison De Almeida of Danbury, Conn., volunteering with the Haitian Health Foundation in Jeremie, Haiti, teaches a Haitian girl to brush her teeth on the island of Haiti.A farewell message from Larson Farm in New Milford is cut into the corn field after the final harvest.Carmen Ciceron uses a tree branch to cool herself off during a summer afternoon of intense heat.A first year Kindergarten teacher coaxes one her students out of hiding in the hallway on the first day of school.George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees signs an autograph for a clearly enthralled fan.Ramon Tavera, 21, carries his mattress and boxspring to his home on Comstock Street in Danbury. Lenore Wichman snuggles with her six children in one of their favorite spots, their parent's bed. This is part Mother's Day story.A young man walks through the rubble that is left after an early morning fire destroyed his home.Korean-American Hannah Y Kim bows in respect to the veterans of the Korean War.A University student takes part in a silent protest on campus, to remember Trayvon Martin, the Florida youth killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator. He was carrying Skittles when he was shot.Danbury Police Sgt Bryan Bishop dusts for fingerprints on the front door of Union Savings Bank on Newtown Rd in Danbury after a bank robbery.Deputy Danbury Fire Marshal Barry Rickert comforts a small child whose family apartment was destroyed by fire. A 17-year-old youth was killed and his girlfriend critically injured when their car collided with an empty school bus. The body of an 11-year-old boy lies next to his bicycle after fatally sliding into a truck. Little five-year-old Julia pours suntan lotion on her Barbie doll. Even Barbie has to be careful in the sun. In December 2012 when a gunman killed 20 children and six administrators at the Sandy Hook School, Monsignor Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, played a large roll in bringing comfort to the community. The pressure took a toll.Displaying extreme flexibility, Ella Brown, 8, of Danbury, a flier for the Danbury Junior Hatters cheerleaders, practices a ''needle''.Herelin Guillermo, 8, a recent immigrant from the Dominican Republic, experiences snow for the first time.Maria Nova, 76, left, and her sister Belinda Matias, 83, rake and bag leaves from their yard on Franklin Street in Danbury.Starry eyes for Santa. After a morning of picking corn on their family farm, kids ride the back of a pick-up truck filled with cornstalks they have just cut and bundled.Ash Wednesday Mass at a Catholic school. John Lora of Danbury works at repairing the plaster in the ceiling of Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown.Preschoolers make telescopes out of their diplomas at their graduation ceremony.These kids say they play soccer ''all the time,'' every chance they get - including this day, on the way home from school. Greyson Nackid, 19, snuggles with Sunny, ''a really affectionate cat'' at the Danbury Animal Welfare. Early morning Black Friday toy shopping.After an absence of six months, children hug their soldier father when he surprised them with a visit to their school. Thomas Geanuracos, 41, a Danbury police officer and Air National Guardsman had been stationed in Iraq.Peter A. Setaro Sr.,105, holds a photograph taken in 1930, the day he married his love, Agnes. A mother takes a business call and listens to her daughter vent at the same time. Photo taken as part of a Mother's Day story on mothers that work from home.Staff Sgt. Todd T.J. Lobraico Jr. was killed when his Air National Guard unit was attacked in Afghanistan. His hometown of New Fairfield, Conn. gave him a hero’s funeral.A school principal and the parents of a kindergartner, try to calm the little girl's jitters on the first day of school. This student had a plan to beat the heat at his prep school graduation ceremony, wearing a dress shirt with cut off sleeves. Roses and love for a retiring teacher. Getting ready for the Christmas season. Andree and Mark Fitzgerald take photos of their quadruplets as they wait for the bus on the first day of Kindergarten. A pre-dance group of kids, ages 3 - 4, rehearse their number, ''Periwinkle Polka'' for an annual performance.Autumn leaves. Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary relaxes in her Redding, Conn. home. As Summer vacation comes to an end, two boys check out the posting of classes on the school window so they can know who this year's teacher will be. George H. W. Bush, campaigning for president, makes a stop in Connecticut.Scarlett Lewis remembers her son Jesse, who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.A moving truck too tall to make it under a city bridge had its top completely severed. Beating a Summer heatwave, a mother lifts her daughter into the cascading water at a local splash park. Gov. Dannel Malloy, still just candidate Malloy, grabs a quick slice of pizza during an Election Day stop in Danbury.
Autumn leaves.  1977Changing a tire.  1984A curious toddler plays in a washing machine as his mother tends to her family's wash at a  local laundromat. 1994Mother and daughter read the paper outside on a warm October day. 1987Chimney Sweep. 1984Life under under the hairdryers at Carol's Style Shop on Main Street in Danbury. 1979My neighbor on Library Place in Danbury  lived her life in solitary squalor. When she died she left a small fortune to nobody in particular. 1979New York Gov. Hugh Carey, left, and New York City Mayor Ed Koch, talk together at the Yankee's season opener at Yankee Stadium. 1980Charlie Brown is hung out to dry. 1980A young mother hangs diapers out to dry. 1980A morning shave for father and son. 1995Get your shoes on kiddo. 1980Legendary actress Bette Davis and her ubiquitous cigarette. 1976Rose, 80, visits her twin sister Mary at a nursing home. The two were inseparable their entire life until Mary become ill. This was part of a Valentine's Day story about the different ways we love. 1994.An aspiring doctor examines her doll. 1981A junked car is a treasure find to boys on Main Street in Danbury. 1979Boys and baseball. 1980Ku Klux Klansmen are questioned by Danbury police for riding up and down Main Street shouting racial obscenities and advertising an upcoming rally in the city. 1982Racial tensions are exposed when the KKK plans a rally in Danbury. 1982A Bethel gas station's window Christmas display stands in solidarity with over 50 American diplomats held hostage by the followers of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran. 1978Coach, team and fans cheer a basketball championship win for the Bethel High School’s girls team. 1985Actress Jane Fonda at a press conference with political activist Tom Hayden, her second husband. 1979Gertrude Van Lanagan and her mother Myrtle, my neighbors in Danbury. 1979Danbury police and a bank officer interview employees at the City Trust Bank in Danbury after two armed robbers took more than $20,000.  1978A little girl with her doll. 1970’sA lady and her cat on Library Place in Danbury. Late 1970’s A young child uses the pay phone at the Danbury Fair Mall. 1987A little boy watches the cars pass by from his perch on a mailbox. 1970’sLovers silhouetted on Compo Beach in Westport, Conn. 1970sA child swings from a fire escape in downtown Danbury. 1970’sAnxious kindergarteners arrive for the first day of school. 1979KIds on a playground in Fall River, Mass. 1970’sPaperboy Jose Furtado, 12, sells newspapers to people waiting in a line that stretches over a mile, to buy gas on Main Street in Danbury during a summer of national gas shortages. 1979A man catches up on the news in downtown Danbury.  1970’sA grumpy gas station attendant protects himself from the rain. 1979.So maybe you can take it with you after all. 1979Optical illusion. 1986A message of love. 1984Danbury Police Officer Jim Marino stops to chat with school children waiting for the bus on Main Street. 1990.Maura Melody and her children attend the funeral for husband and father, Danbury Fire Lt. Martin ''Butch'' Melody. Melody and his best friend, firefighter Joseph Halas, died battling a factory fire. 1982.Mothers love. 1980A thirsty kid with his obliging father. 1980Vinnie Iovino Sr., owner of Vin's Barbershop in downtown Danbury, takes care of customers early on a Saturday morning. 1980.The final year of the Great Danbury Fair. 1981The final year of the Great Danbury Fair. 1981The final year of the Great Danbury Fair. 1981Selfies, before selfies. Top, with Andy Warhol in his NYC studio. Bottom, with Bob Hope on a Redding, Conn. golf course. 1980’sThe opening day of fishing season. 1981.Umpire Jerry DeJulia calls a baseball game. 1987Leon O. Breece, 36, of Danbury, with his six children for a Father’s Day photo essay. 1995.
Amazing Grace

The New York Daily News dubbed her, “The hottest
healer in the East.” Singing evangelist Grace, as she
became known, was a housewife with kids and a
voice to save souls when I met her back in the spring
of 1980. A gospel singer with a gift for praying for
the sick with miraculous results, Grace was the
subject of a News-Times feature article that I
photographed. The story brought her worldwide
media attention and a lifelong friend in me. In the tradition of evangelists Kathryn Kuhlman,
Oral Roberts and turn-of-the-last century tent revivalists, Grace ‘N Vessels of Christ Ministries
still preaches salvation with “signs and wonders following” as she lays hands on the sick to
pray.
The New York Daily News dubbed her, “The hottest healer in
the East.” Singing evangelist Grace, as she became known,
was a housewife with kids and a voice to save souls when I
met her back in the spring of 1980. A gospel singer with a gift
for praying for the sick with miraculous results, Grace was
the subject of a News-Times feature article that I
photographed. The story brought her worldwide media
attention and a lifelong friend in me. In the tradition of evangelists Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral Roberts and
turn-of-the-last century tent revivalists, Grace ‘N Vessels of Christ Ministries still preaches salvation with
“signs and wonders following” as she lays hands on the sick to pray.
The New York Daily News dubbed her,
“The hottest healer in the East.” Singing
evangelist Grace, as she became known,
was a housewife with kids and a voice to
save souls when I met her back in the
spring of 1980. A gospel singer with a gift
for praying for the sick with miraculous
results, Grace was the subject of a
News-Times feature article that I
photographed. The story brought her
worldwide media attention and a lifelong
friend in me. In the tradition of evangelists
Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral Roberts and
turn-of-the-last century tent revivalists,
Grace ‘N Vessels of Christ Ministries still
preaches salvation with “signs and wonders
following” as she lays hands on the sick to
pray.
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Credit: H John Voorhees III, Hearst Connecticut Media
Carol Kaliff worked as a staff photographer and photo editor at The News-Times in Danbury, Connecticut, a Hearst Connecticut newspaper, for 41 years. Before that, she spent several years as chief photographer at Brooks Community Newspapers in Westport, Connecticut.

Currently freelancing, Carol Kaliff helps writers, editors and marketing people tell visual stories with photos  that show honest moments. To capture joy, surprise and the other emotions of life, a photographer must connect with her subjects and understand the importance of the event being recorded.

Everyone has a story to tell. Whether it’s an individual, a family or a business.  Finding and communicating that unique narrative is at the core of photojournalism. Need help telling your story?
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