Pictures tell stories. Often those stories are incomplete, but our memories fill in the blanks. We can see the emotion on the face of the subjects. We can see the details. They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and I believe that. But the reasoning behind that is our memories, our context, our emotions… all filling in the blank spaces. One of my favorite aspects of photography is the storytelling. I love capturing the emotions! I love helping a family interact in ways that convey their emotions. Those families tell me their stories and why it’s funny when Junior makes that face – the one he’s been making since birth. Or why Haley laughs about a certain sound. Or even why Mom started dating Dad in the first place. They tell me their birth stories, their pregnancy stories, and the stories that have been passed down through generations. And I listen. And I pour those emotions into the session. I see images in my mind and I tell the story. I’m a storyteller and photography is my favorite medium.
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April's StoryHe is perfect. She was pregnant for so long, watching as her due date came and went. But, despite the discomfort in her hips and back, she was happy for him to stay exactly where he was, so long as that meant he was healthy and happy. Then it was time… and she had waited for this for so long, ready to embrace the pain of labor, ready to push until her little man came into the world and breathed his first breath. But the story doesn’t always happen the way you imagine. He was in distress. Things were not progressing as they should and those dreaded words stung her ears worse than the tears that stung her cheeks: “emergency C-section.” They wheeled her away while her husband scrubbed up, waiting for the possibility of being there with her. He heard her scream! And her world went dark. When she awoke, she learned of the rest of her birth story. It wasn’t the way she had dreamed and hoped and planned. But she held him and smiled. Because none of that even mattered anymore. She looked at him and realized to herself, “He is perfect.”
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Cassandra's StoryShe believes in the future and sees it reflecting back at her in his eyes. He makes her laugh. He makes her feel at ease and content in this life. He created the life inside her. She already has a beautiful daughter, but now her family dynamic is about to change drastically. Who gets married when they are eight months pregnant? And her feminine voice whispers, “What will I look like in a wedding gown?” So many changes in so short a time. But she is strong and she knows how to love. She is determined. She will have the wedding. She will have the babies. She will have the family she has dreamt of, and the life she has worked so hard to create. Daughters. Two girls. She will be strong. She will teach them to love. She will show them that nothing is impossible. She studies herself in the mirror one last time before she steps outside and into her future.
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Leigh's StoryWhen you're in your mid-thirties and you're a mother/baby nurse, you think about having a baby of your own. You think, “When I'm in my forties and making more money, I can adopt if I haven't met anyone.” But then 9/11 happens and it just hits you - what are you waiting for? If you don't try, you'll never realize the dream.
So, with a hopeful heart, you begin the process. Two years of documents, forms, appointments, checks, many checks, even more prayers, and lots of waiting. They call you: a child has been born. She is yours. YOURS. You think about new names but keep the one she has; she is her own person already, but you will be her mother. By nothing less than a miracle, she comes home at 5 1/2 months old, and you have a baby. You are a single, working mom, and you get it now... READ MORE |
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