…all we need is love, love, love…
I’m in a Beatles kind of mood. Maybe it is because of Valentine’s day this week…maybe because I just can’t take any more hip hop. Maybe because I saw an ad for Beatlemania coming to the State Theater. Whatever the reason…I just love, love, love these photographs depicting L-O-V-E…
No photos in this post…just my babbling.
Today I was sitting on the couch after my girls got home from school. They were gobbling up their snack at the kitchen table and I was engulfed in a great book (Committed, by Elizabeth Gilbert, if you were wondering). The older two girls finished their snack and went off to practice piano and violin…and I was left there with my little baby. Well…my 6 year old baby. She was totally unaware that I was watching her, and I got in a solid 5 minutes of just watching her eat her snack. Not an exciting event, no…but let me tell you, how often do we sit back and really look at the details of our lives? Or more importantly, the details of the people we love the most? In my house, we are always rushing to swimming…piano…whatever. So there isn’t much downtime, but with 3 kids, what do you expect? Anyway…back to my watching my daughter. The light was streaming in and highlighting her school-tousled hair so perfectly…her little shoulders shimmied as she sang to herself…her foot tapped when she reached for another orange slice…her brow furrowed as she tried to get the bitter white flesh off her orange piece…her lips smiled as she looked outside and saw the flurries floating from the sky…her face contorted as she played around with blowing her cheeks in and out…and finally, she noticed I was watching her and she gave me that sheepish little smile that she gives so well and said “mom, do you *really* like the songs that I make up?” Truly, there is nothing more beautiful sounding than those songs…
What I capture in the kids that I photograph is these little things…the little looks…the little expressions, emotions, moods. Because not only will we not remember those little things, we often don’t even take the time to see them in the first place. So I encourage you…relive what it was like when they were babies and you watched them all the time. Now that they are in their own world and so much more self conscious of what is going on around them, figure out a way to just see those little details. It will be an incredible 5 minutes…I promise.
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Yes, those new babies are simply delicious. At only 5 days old, this lil’ peanut was ALERT! I don’t think we’ve ever worked so hard to get a little one asleep…whew! She was so sweet…so perfect…so tiny. Every minute with her was a joy…truly and honestly. And I don’t know I could have said that a few years ago.
Feeling like I need to be a little honest here – - for a long time, I struggled photographing newborns. They are NOT easy little creatures to work with! After all, they cry…they poop and pee…they wiggle…they make ‘old man’ faces…they don’t sleep when you want them to and when you’ve decided that they are just going to be awake, their underdeveloped eye muscles make them look cross-eyed. It really isn’t a surprise that I’ve struggled with newborns…even with my own kids, I was so much happier when they were…oh, say…4 months old, when they had personalities and could communicate in some other way besides blood-curdling screams. But as a photographer, I see the beauty in those newborn babes…their delicate features, their soft skin, their vulnerability to this world…and I want to capture that beauty. Ultimately inspired by Anne Geddes, the Godmother of modern newborn photography, many of the ‘rock star’ photographers of the world create the most incredible newborn images. You know…the ones where your jaw drops and you think “wow”…or “how in the world!??!?”. So for a long time, I’ve held myself to that standard. But you know what…I feel like I’ve come into my own with these newborns. I hold them…I talk to them…I hush in their ears…and I let them be. Maybe it’s not the most stylized or trendy newborn photography out there, but I think I can capture a pretty good moment…a uniquely distinct emotion…one where you look at the image and you can feel that little baby’s skin…or you can hear their soft breathing. And besides…I’m not the most stylized or trendy person out there, so why should I try to make my photography that way?
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At 4 weeks of age, babies start to lose that newborn look. They aren’t as bendy, they are more alert and they start to have a little personality. But I’m often left with no choice but to photograph them at this age and while it can be a little more of a challenge than when they are 4 *days* old, this little girl did perfectly – - she was very sweet and mellow. And she even spared me the poop explosion…of course, Dad was not so lucky…but he took it all in stride…
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And love the pictures of love.
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