It is truly and honor to be asked to photograph special moments and times in people’s lives. It is even a bigger honor when they come back year after year. One of my favorites is photographing my previous newborns, for their first birthday. It is like watching my babies grow. Last year I met this little sweetie, and her puppies, just weeks after she was born. For those of us who had dogs before we had kids, our dogs were our babies. Jack and Jessie are the 4 legged babies in this house. And we never want to see our babies sick, so I my heart sunk when I noticed that Jessie was missing a leg, lost to cancer. Jessie such a strong dog, you would never have known she was sick. She was running around and as happy as she was last time I saw her. Jack was like my left hip and followed me everywhere, I would take him home if I could. And of course, little Miss M is running around too. Growing up quick before our eyes.
It is extremely hard to get all eyes on the camera when photographing a family of 5, even harder when 2 of the 5 are dogs. So I can say I am thrilled I was able to have grabbed the family photo I did.
