I have written many posts on why I love documentary family sessions, but I expect this to be the mother of them all. Amidst my full-time hectic wedding photography roster, it has been super hard to squeeze in time to build a portfolio for this very special type of session, but I have been trying to do so off and on since 2013!<\/p>\n
This time? I refuse to let it fall by the wayside. Why? Because my wedding clients understand more and more each year that their wedding day isn\u2019t about what you look like, and what you\u2019re wearing, but about the once-in-a-lifetime fleeting moments that they want captured so they can preserve their special wedding memories.<\/p>\n
What has occurred to me recently, is that EVERY DAY of your children\u2019s childhood is filled with these very same once-in-a-lifetime moments\u2026 and they are just as beautiful, if not more so! Sometimes, however, we can only see this when we are take a step back from the thick of tears, tantrums, and endless dirty diapers and look at our daily lives from an outside perspective.<\/p>\n
This leads to my next question: WHY? Why when my wedding clients are paying a premium to preserve their special moments, do families continue to settle for posed smiling pictures of them looking at the camera and maybe a couple of staged lifestyle shots that don\u2019t truly represent their actual lives? Don\u2019t get me wrong\u2026 I\u2019m not bashing lifestyle photographers because there are many of them who really do take fantastic portraits many people would want\u2026 but portraits are not memories.<\/p>\n
As a mom of two kids ages 5 and 3, it\u2019s because of photographing these sessions that I look at every moment with my children in a completely new light. I spend more time appreciating the beautiful moments and cute expressions that tell my family\u2019s story even if I don\u2019t take out my camera to photograph them. Long story short, when you book a Day in The Life Session with me, you\u2019re not just getting photos, you\u2019re getting a new outlook on your everyday life and you simply can\u2019t put a price on that\u2026 well, actually right now it\u2019s $500 for a four-hour breakfast session and $1,000 for a full 8 hour session, but whatever.<\/p>\n
I encourage every mom who is out there sacrificing EVERYTHING to have children, and to have these beautiful, rewarding moments with them, to have them captured. I know for myself anyway, I will never pay for another type of family session. And once you see the photos from your own life, maybe you\u2019ll feel the same. In the meantime, you can take a look at a session from none other than my ever-willing guinea pigs, good friends, and infamous Alice and Hatter<\/a> (Erin & Matt) to get the idea!<\/p>\n