I met Taylor in the fields to take her senior photographs after a few reschedules, and the rain had given us the gift of greens and buttercups. Beauty all around. :) Congratulations, Taylor!
Last week I was so excited to be featured on the Beyond Snapshots blog in their Life is a Photo Op series! If you have followed my work for any length of time, I am sure it’s clear that to me real life is the best opportunity to make great art, so it was so awesome to be included in this wonderful series among such amazing talent. If you haven’t visited the Beyond Snapshots website before you should absolutely should. The contributors to Life is a Photo Op may only submit personal (unpaid) projects to be featured and the way each of us view our world is incredibly interesting and beautiful. Check it out!
And if you have an interest in photography and taking that camera off of auto and actually learning how to USE IT you should absolutely check out Rachel Devine and Peta Mazey’s new book also titled Beyond Snapshots. I have to tell you, I bought a copy to give as a gift and ended up keeping it for myself because it is SO informative and well written. A real gem. ;) Enjoy!
We had an amazing early spring warm spell last week that made me think for a minute we were going to skip over spring and run straight into summer. The plants have been confused as well. Our gorgeous pink cherry blossom explosions came much sooner than expected causing even the Cherry Blossom Festival to be moved up a few days. I gathered up my favorite 3 people and rushed out to enjoy them as soon as I saw them coming.
Looking at these, and looking back on the photos from last year, I can’t believe how much my girls have grown and changed. I hope to go back to this same spot every year that we live here. These images are like terribly detailed and colorful pencil marks on the hallway moulding showing how much taller they have gotten. Only instead of just pencil marks on a wall, I see them shooting up and losing the baby chubbiness, I see the deepness in their eyes, their new smattering of freckles, and the little chip in W’s tooth. These photos remind me to stop and just be with them now, before their nails even grow another millimeter. To document, cherish and photograph them as much as I can. Because the pictures here are a concrete example of just how fast the time is going.
It is cherry blossom time again, and we are surrounding ourselves with fluffy petals of pink. Just one for now…
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