My nephew, Sean , does a flip off the side of the pool as my niece, Josie looks on.
Happy Easter everyone!
Today was an interesting day for me as a photographer. I gave up my photographer duties to my young, eager to learn nieces. One has been helping me shoot weddings and the other has been asking to get involved with photography (notice how I say “get involved with”? It is after all a relationship that one can never seem to walk away from).
There are two things I learned today. One. I need to put the fork down ASAP. When I am not shooting the pictures, images of me seem to turn up in Lightroom and man am I fat! There is nothing that motivates me more to exercise than to see images of how people see me.
The second and more important thing I learned today was that there is nothing like the look on a young persons face when they are handed an expensive camera and asked to “go get some shots for me”. Their look is priceless and the looks they get from their peers is even more priceless. My nieces captured some images I only wish I could have captured. They caught the pure and unbridled emotions of a family coming together for a holiday way better than I ever could have hoped to.
I think I learned a third thing just now. Trust your gut. I had a gut feeling come over me that said to let them have some fun and see what they can do left alone and uninstructed. My gut said they would kick ass and they did. Now my gut is telling me to go get some ice cream.
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