Race for Time
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This is a fairly new venture for me, but one in which I am loving...
Since I've been on this "vulnerability" kick here lately...let me just tell you that had you told me five years ago that people would not only seek me out to photograph their family's moments, but that I would also be teaching classes to moms on how to create those images for themselves...
AND...now, that other future professional photographers would be wanting one on one mentoring from me to help them launch their own businesses...
Ummm...I"m just a small town girl from that state of north who drinks way too much coffee and inhales chocolate like it's going out of style!
But God...
He really has just blown my socks off with the opportunities that He's thrown my way AND with the confidence He is building up in me...I am blessed!
Let me give you the scoop on mentoring...
actually, let this gal give you her perspective (cuz I asked her and she graciously replied to my overzealous emails!)
To whom would you recommend a Mentoring session, compared to a Snapshop class?
There something to be said for just knowing where you belong...
For me, this fall has been an incredible journey...I've been busier than I've ever been and my style has morphed and changed and back again and then I have slowly become more confident in the style and moments that I want to capture. I don't "get it" 100% of the time, but that's the beauty of artistry...it can ebb and flow with you, with clients' dynamics, with location & weather...everything plays a part..and that's what always keeps it interesting and challenging and keeps me coming back for more :)
This photography "trek" is not just a job for me...it's a part of myself...and while that is not only something that makes me incredibly vulnerable, it is also something that I'm learning to value more and more...being a people pleaser by nature, I sometimes find it difficult to know just where I belong because I try so hard to fit into everyone's "ideal" of what I should be...
am I the only one that struggles with that?
Have I lost half my audience at this point with my "emotional" talk?
I'm just throwin' it out there...I think everyone wants to know that they belong somewhere...that they fit...that they have found their niche'...and I also believe that it's always changing, because we all grow and mature and have different goals and fears that sometimes seem to change like the wind...
I know that my goal this winter is to continue to evaluate and grow and learn how to pull out the interactions by creating the situations for my clients to be REAL in their moments...so I can capture a season of LIFE for them...
These little ones know where they belong...they are secure in the arms of the ones that shower them with love & protection...
It's been passed down through the generations already...
I think I may have mentioned before that I'm about 56 blog posts behind...
OH.MY.Goodness
It's because I want to spend a bulk of my time editing and processing through the sessions so that I can get galleries out quickly...
but, my blogging gets put on the backburner...
I'm skipping wayyyyy ahead in that line up to blog about this family...
They have a baby girl...it's their firstborn...
baby makes three...
I had ONE baby girl once...just me, hubby and our sweetpea...
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO to be exact...
She's going to become a TEENager this coming week...
And when I saw these images on my computer screen, I couldn't help but be nostalgic...
My girl was once this small...with big eyes and blowing raspberries...
She packs her own lunch and does laundry by herself now...
My, how time changes things...
I watched this couple interact with their little girl...
how she loves them both, and feels safe when they are near...
how she is the center of their world right now...and they'd do anything for her...
and how, little by little, they will teach her to be independent...and not "need" them so much in the future...and oh how that sometimes hurts to let go...when all you want to do is hold them close and block every pain or challenge that could possibly come their way...
but right now...
in this moment of "she's not yet one year old"...they can bask in her dependence...in her security and confidence in them...they can protect and pour into her every ounce of love & character as the moments pass by...
thirteen years go fast friends...and I know that this young family understands this better than most...they know to cherish the moments...how to invest in relationships and time together...they "get" it...of that I have no doubt!
It's been a beautiful fall...and what a sweet reminder...
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