FAMILY SESSION: over the years

I'm going to wax nostalgic on you for a minute...

Back when I began this photography business, I only "imagined" or "dreamed" of it funding my desire for the latest lenses and keeping my camera updated...

What I never fathomed was the part it would play for me as a person...and on my heart...

You know I'm a people person by nature...I don't necessarily struggle making acquaintances...in fact, my family knows that it's quite natural for me to make "life long" friends while on vacation, standing in lines...

As my business grew, I realized that these incredible clients were not just investing in photography, but they invested in ME...

They brought their parenting skills, their gifts of encouragement, their worldviews, their gentle criticisms, their whole selves to the session...

and I gleaned from it...

I've been grown, matured, stretched, and poured into, by these amazing families that not only value the STORY of pictures, but they've chosen to invest in ordinary ME...

We have this ONE life...We can be in it for ourselves 

OR

we can choose to live it well...to make a difference in the lives of those we come in contact...

My clients choose the latter...and for that I am eternally grateful!!! 

This family is one that has been with me from almost the beginning...they've blessed me 100X more than I could ever give to them...

They are a gift!