Miss Fidge gave me a rush of joy, happiness and best of all peace, when I needed it last night. It was a pleasure just to watch her… and shoot, of course.
This little turkey had to be the best kid shoot in quite some time. Little Carson. A total doll. He was just a joy and he wouldn’t stop moving… all energy and smiles. I wish I could say my own miscreants had been so durn easy going at this age…. ummmmm. Nope. Resounding nope.
So this little dude was so appreciated… on what was a rainy, nasty day he was just pure BLISS!
I snapped relentlessly… hundreds of exposures. What was really a family sitting turned into all Carson… all the time. And his parents were thrilled.
Oh so many years ago, when my own photographic aspirations were still but a seed… a dream… wishes and unicorns… at a meeting to discuss our wedding coverage, I assured the photographer we hired that the ceremony would be outdoors and he could feel free to “snap away”….
Down his bulbous nose he glared, “I don’t snap.”
Pretentious ass… but to his credit, that moment helped direct me professionally: I’m a “snapper”… I just snap, snap, snap and snap some more. And you know what? All that snapping gets me some purdy good images… so proud snapper am I….
Right Carson?
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Just a little post about the sweeeeeeet couple I shot November 1st. Lovely. So young. And sooooo purty!!
I am struck at most of the weddings of young people I attend- I shoot second and third timers too… not so young- at how these kids are just starting out. It takes me back every time.
I was 25, it seems very young to me, now… and I was with the love of my life. We had the world and the seemingly endless years before us… it was just a wonderful time.
I’m happy to say that after 14 years, it still is. Better, even. And while there are many years behind us, I still feel that there are seemingly endless years before us. They’re just moving faster!
Good luck to Mitch and Brienne and to all my other couples of 2008. May you have the best, albeit most challenging, years together life has to offer!!
More like peacefully aglow… for my first week back to BSM in I’m not sure how long. A little glow from the Pacific Northwest… and yes, it’s raining!
Join Tracey over at Mother May I for more Best Shots this Monday!
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. -Charles Kettering
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -Orison Swett Marden
… when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. - John Keats
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! - Andrew Carnegie
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. -Henry David Thoreau
