We were warned. The first child will have a dozen albums, the second might have one, the rest… well, there are some photos of them somewhere. Haha. Maybe not completely accurate. But in my own life, I’ve found just a little bit of truth in it. I definitely have more photographs of Adela as a baby than I do of Josiah, our second born. And there’s a tendency to take a lot of photos of babies, and less as they get older. But I do make a conscious effort to keep the scales balanced, and to not let the passion for photo-taking fizzle. Because I know some day I’m going to want to look back and remember ALL the stages of ALL my kids’ lives.
So families like this one inspire me. They scheduled this session not because they were having a baby, but because their oldest baby is now a man and headed out to make his own way in the world. They wanted to freeze this moment in time, their family, in their home, surrounded by their things and the people (including the canine variety) who are most important to them before the big change and all the exciting things that come next. I know they will never regret than they took the time to do it.
I’m headed out the door to a newborn session right now. And so I go back to the beginning. I love how this job allows me to witness and preserve both the beginning and the end of childhood. Two monumental moments in a family’s history, equally special and totally different.
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