a good reminder | child photographer

annapolis Photographer . . . taking some time tonight moving old files to storage, getting things in order for the new year, and I found a folder of images that I had forgotten about.  I just kept clicking, next, next, next, and with each press of the keyboard, I could feel my eyes well up just a little bit more.  This wee baby, this little bundle of chub sporting just a few teeth and a sparse head of hair, is sleeping in the room next door, in a big girl bed getting a good night’s sleep before school tomorrow.  HOW did THAT happen?  I remember the day I took these like it was yesterday…a month before her first birthday …she loved (and still does) to “swim” in our big tub and I was just getting ready to put her in it when the light was just so, that little duck clutched in her chunky hand meant I had to get my camera.  I’ve decided to put a group of this series in a storyboard, and will share pics when I am finished, but in the meantime, I’m just reliving this moment.  With all of the changes and growth that she’s gone through from baby to pre-schooler, one thing hasn’t changed – that SMILE – that smile that melts my heart and never fails to make me smile right along with her.  She is truly the happiest human being I know and I can only wish she lives her lifetime that way.

I have said many times that I love my job, I love capturing THIS for my clients, I love stopping time and giving them the chance to relive moments just like the one that I am reliving now…and what a reminder when I feel this way myself of just how important it is.  Happy week :-)

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ps dear blog, I really do miss you.  If I keep saying that enough I hope it means we can get our relationship back on track.

neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail…

yeah…good luck with that.

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dear mother nature

I am really sorry that I complained last fall about the rain.  No, really, I am.  You can turn this into rain (well, at least give us a little bit more play time first), but at the very least you can turn the snow machines off.

This fall, when complaining about the rain to my grandmother (who is soon to be 90), let me know on a couple of occasions that I should be glad it wasn’t snow, or we’d be up to our “Ox coccyx”.  Well, needless to say, now we are :-)

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