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Everyone wants pictures of their kids. Good pictures, bad pictures, doesn’t matter. We adore our children and want to capture every last moment as we feel that clock inexorably moving forward. Yesterday they were babies, then they sat up. Can that be MY child riding a scooter? We document their lives with professional portraits and iPhone snaps and home movies and tend to forget one thing.
We are part of their lives.
Women always say to me “Oh, I don’t want to be in any. I didn’t do my hair. I’m not wearing any makeup. I need to lose 10 pounds. Or 20.” No, you probably don’t need to lose 20 pounds and I’m sure you look gorgeous without makeup and, more to the point, you are in your kids lives looking just the way you look, right now. You need to be in the pictures. You are creating the photographic story of your child’s life, from the snapshots to the portraits, and when you look back you will see a narrative connecting them that you didn’t even realize was there at the time.
I know the odds are good that you are the family photographer and can claim “well, I’m not in them because no one else can take a picture.” I know this because this is my excuse. Or maybe you duck behind a tree when the family photographer comes out waving his or her camera claiming those 20 pounds or lack of lipstick as the excuse. I know that you feel uncomfortable in front of a camera. It’s hard to have your picture taken. But if you don’t get in front of that camera that photographic narrative won’t include you. There will be no photo you can show your adult children of you loving on them at 5 days old. No photo of you laughing with your 2-year-old. No photo of you with all of your children smiling at you because they adore you. Hand your partner the camera and get some snapshots with you in them. Next time you have a portrait session tell the photographer to make sure you are in some of the images. Because you ARE part of the story of your children’s lives. You need to be in the pictures.
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This laughing boy, his father and his paternal grandfather posed all together for me at a family shoot last weekend.
I think I will pair this one with a poem. I hope you enjoy the sneak peek; your full gallery should be ready by the middle of the week!
Generation To Generation
In a house which becomes a home,
one hands down and another takes up
the heritage of mind and heart,
laughter and tears, musings and deeds.
Love, like a carefully loaded ship,
crosses the gulf between the generations.
Therefore, we do not neglect the ceremonies
of our passage: when we wed, when we die,
and when we are blessed with a child;
When we depart and when we return;
When we plant and when we harvest.
Let us bring up our children. It is not
the place of some official to hand to them
their heritage.
If others impart to our children our knowledge
and ideals, they will lose all of us that is
wordless and full of wonder.
Let us build memories in our children,
lest they drag out joyless lives,
lest they allow treasures to be lost because
they have not been given the keys.
We live, not by things, but by the meanings
of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords
from generation to generation.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Last year I donated a session to a fundraiser for Families for Conscious Living of Connecticut to raise money to help with the medical expenses of a little girl born with two holes in her heart. Like all mothers everywhere the auction item winner has been a trifle busy with kith and kin and we finally had time to do her session today on what may have been the most perfect fall weather day ever.
I love this one because it is such a tender mother/daughter moment.
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This venerable gentleman has just celebrated his 80th birthday and his daughter wanted to commemorate this milestone with a family portrait. Along with more conventional groupings I did a few that focus just on him, such as this one.
I did my standard spiel about how it takes adults a while to warm up to the camera, and that it is harder work to look natural in pictures than you might think at the beginning of the shoot. This is true for most people – most of us just look like a frozen deer in the headlights at first. About 5 minutes into the shoot I looked at the family matriarch – the gorgeous wife of the gentleman above – and said, “You’ve had your picture taken a lot, haven’t you?” Sure enough, she was a model in her youth. Her granddaughter has inherited this poise and, as you can surely tell below, looked great in every photo. Every single one.
I hope you enjoy your sneak peek – your full gallery should be ready early next week and then you’ll have the difficult problem of choosing which images you want!
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When we were in Michigan last week I got the chance to do some family portraits for one of my husband’s cousins. Last I saw her she was posing for a snapshot with my babies at her wedding and now her first baby is older than they were then!
We don’t make the 12-hour drive to visit the Michigan family with twins often. We were going to do it last November but were struck down by some nasty virus the morning we planned to leave. This time the portable DVD player both destroyed our parenting ideals regarding limiting TV viewing and saved our sanity.
I’m glad I got there sane, however as I got to play (I mean, errr, take picture of) her gorgeous son and step-daughter for over an hour. I love this particular shot because it shows her stunning smile and has such sweet interaction between her and her babe.
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This girl is so gorgeous. She has that perfect, clear skin of girlhood (and her freckles spell out “hi” on her nose), the most infectious smile imaginable and a laugh that breaks into a million pieces, each of which become a fairy.
Her mother booked a fairy shoot, and you’ll see the fairy image soon, but after we took her out of the costume we did a few casual shots and I simply don’t know how anyone could resist them, or her. Thanks for letting me take pictures of your beautiful girl; we’ll have to do it again soon, perhaps with fall leaves or when snows cover the world.
Oh, and Miss B. – your minions will be here with your tea shortly. 
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Have ten friends or family members comment on your photo and I’ll toss an 8X10 of your choice in your final order!
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