Whenever I can capture the essence of my children with my
camera, I am delighted! There are times when I
view my world as through a camera lens, I can see the pictures before I ever
see them on screen or paper. It can be
frustrating to me when the camera isn't seeing what I see for
whatever reason, the lighting might not be strong enough for the camera, or it might be too
strong, or the pictures come out blurry from the movement of the child. These days, it’s rare for me to be able to capture
that special millisecond of time because of all of the demands, but it certainly is
special when I do. Sometimes it comes
from a child calling my attention, other times I happen to be a part of the
action and can see the photo unfold right before my eyes.
I love portrait photography.
It tells a story without words, it has emotion, it has meaning. It’s like carrying that one moment into
eternity; that one moment that gets frozen forever. It’s that special.
Last night I had one of those moments. The story goes like this. Elise comes up to me telling me about this
bee costume she made, I look up from the computer and know instantly to go grab the camera. She had cut and pasted bee antenaes and
wings, found the perfect yellow shirt from her drawer, attached a stinger, she
had thought of everything. Out the door we
went to get the right amount of lighting and click click click. The photo I was most proud of was captured towards the end as we were wrapping up our little session. She happened to look
up at the sky and there is was, that was amazing. Intuitively, I had an a-ha moment and snap, I
got it. Now I have a wonderful little
memory of these 5 minutes spent reveling her little homemade costume, and grateful I took the time to make a big deal of her creativity.
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