Photographing Moments – Blacksburg Family Photographer
I have to admit something. I don’t photograph my family enough. I know that seems bizarre to many readers because, HELLO…, I am a photographer. I am supposed to have albums and albums full of photographs of my children through the ages, right? Well if that is what was supposed to happen I have failed miserably.
Now don’t get me wrong, I do have some photos of my children. I have annual family photos that I try to do in order to make sure that there is some documentation of my children growing up. I take the camera out for Halloween when I have worked so hard to make sure their costumes were adorable and don’t want to forget those details. But the moments.. those little moments… those are the ones I am missing. I want to remember Beila giggling because she made a silly outfit up in her room. I want to capture that excitement when Skyler hit her first home run. I want to remember Ryder’s face when first learned to ride a bike.
Don’t get me wrong, I do have a few of these photos but I should have more. I have decided that I want to make a point of taking a snapshot, at the very least with my phone, of those memories. Carrying my camera to a sporting event doesn’t mean I have to work and photograph the entire event. Every single picture I take doesn’t have to have lots of thought and technique… no, I am going to be a mom and photograph my children and not always have that “photographer hat” on. I am going to make a scrapbook again (although a digital one because I don’t have time for a fancy one.. ha!) and I am going to post on Facebook photos of my own children!
Why am I taking the time to blog about this? I am writing about this because I know that I am not alone! I know that there are many of us, professional photographers and not, who stress themselves about getting that perfect shot when we should be happy with just the shot sometimes! So here’s to silly photos of goofy kids taken on phones! Here’s to snapshots that are overexposed but capture a moment that needed to be immortalized. Here’s to a blurry photography of your 2 year old running naked after bath time (baby butts are A-DORABLE). And most of all, here’s to letting ourselves off of the hook. It’s okay to mess up, miss a moment, and not remember every time.
Here are the types of photos I will take more of…phone photography. I will also add in some big girl camera photos, but this is all I have for now! (and that’s okay!)
