a friend shared this with me the other day. from REAL SIMPLE's website...
Note To Self
Get Professional Photos of Your Children
I’ve never forgotten an invaluable piece of advice that I heard from an older friend right after my first child was born. She told me, “One of my greatest regrets about my children’s childhoods was that I didn’t have more professional pictures taken.”
“You didn’t take many pictures?” I asked.
“I took tons of pictures,” she said, “but the fact is, professional photographs are so much better than even the best snapshots.”
I absolutely agree—professional photos are better. And keeping her advice in mind, ever since my daughters were born, I’ve been zealous about getting their photos taken professionally at least once a year.
While it’s a lot of fun (and also a pain) to take pictures myself, it’s terrific to have some pictures that are truly excellent. These photos don’t take the place of the on-the-spot pictures that I take myself—I still take scads of photos at birthday parties, first days of school, on the slide, with a popsicle—but these pictures memorialize my children’s childhoods in a different way.
Plus they make great family gifts. I can never figure out a good present for the grandparents and great-grandparents, but they always love to get a really great photograph—especially the relatives who don’t often get a chance to see the girls in person.
Also, research shows that one way to boost your happiness is to reflect on happy times, and looking at photographs helps keep memories more vivid.
It’s a splurge, of course. Professional photos aren’t cheap.
However, I figure that the money I spend on these photographs will strengthen family bonds, enhance happy memories, and capture the fleeting moments of childhood. They give me more pleasure than practically any other purchases that I make. That strikes me as pretty good happiness bang for the buck.
A friend’s family had another great photography tradition. For her whole life, at every milestone, her parents took a picture of her and her brother sitting exactly the same way on their front stoop. It’s fascinating to see them change through the years. Along the same lines, the artist Nicholas Nixon took a photograph of his wife and her three sisters once a year for 33 years. The collection of these photographs, The Brown Sisters, is riveting.
Getting professional photos take is a great example of the tiresome fact that happiness takes thought and effort. These photographs are easy to arrange; in the scheme of things, not terribly expensive; contribute greatly to our family happiness—and yet it probably never would have occurred to me to do it if my friend hadn’t suggested it.
Rubin, Gretchen. REAL SIMPLE.
http://simplystated.realsimple.com/life/2008/03/unforgettable-a.html
Mar 3, 2008.
i'm off to yuma this weekend for a few sessions. i think it's going to be such a fun change in scenery. and not only a change of scenery but four boys and 14 chickens. just wish their pig was there too (he's at the county fair)! :-)
still working on the revamping of deb schwedhelm photography. it's exciting but it just seems that there's not enough time in a day to get things done as fast as i'd like. hopefully by the end of the month though...that's my goal.
and a skyler funny...
by looking at my little ones today, one would have thought it was 100 degrees out (but it wasn't; it was 79). so, we're on our way home from shopping and sky's slumped in the back seat, looking like she just got done running a marathon.
sky: mom, you going to von's?
me: yea sky, why?
sky: good. i need to go by the cooler thing.
me: are you kidding me? you want to go grocery shopping to cool down?
sky: yea, there's a cold spot there and i'm hot.
omg. seriously. she wants to go to the grocery store so she can hang out in the freezer area and get cool. good thing we don't live somewhere really hot. she'd really be in trouble.
lasty...for J, who as we were leaving our session the other day, said, can you put me on your website? as i promised J, here you go...and thanks for such a wonderful time!
Note To Self
Get Professional Photos of Your Children
I’ve never forgotten an invaluable piece of advice that I heard from an older friend right after my first child was born. She told me, “One of my greatest regrets about my children’s childhoods was that I didn’t have more professional pictures taken.”
“You didn’t take many pictures?” I asked.
“I took tons of pictures,” she said, “but the fact is, professional photographs are so much better than even the best snapshots.”
I absolutely agree—professional photos are better. And keeping her advice in mind, ever since my daughters were born, I’ve been zealous about getting their photos taken professionally at least once a year.
While it’s a lot of fun (and also a pain) to take pictures myself, it’s terrific to have some pictures that are truly excellent. These photos don’t take the place of the on-the-spot pictures that I take myself—I still take scads of photos at birthday parties, first days of school, on the slide, with a popsicle—but these pictures memorialize my children’s childhoods in a different way.
Plus they make great family gifts. I can never figure out a good present for the grandparents and great-grandparents, but they always love to get a really great photograph—especially the relatives who don’t often get a chance to see the girls in person.
Also, research shows that one way to boost your happiness is to reflect on happy times, and looking at photographs helps keep memories more vivid.
It’s a splurge, of course. Professional photos aren’t cheap.
However, I figure that the money I spend on these photographs will strengthen family bonds, enhance happy memories, and capture the fleeting moments of childhood. They give me more pleasure than practically any other purchases that I make. That strikes me as pretty good happiness bang for the buck.
A friend’s family had another great photography tradition. For her whole life, at every milestone, her parents took a picture of her and her brother sitting exactly the same way on their front stoop. It’s fascinating to see them change through the years. Along the same lines, the artist Nicholas Nixon took a photograph of his wife and her three sisters once a year for 33 years. The collection of these photographs, The Brown Sisters, is riveting.
Getting professional photos take is a great example of the tiresome fact that happiness takes thought and effort. These photographs are easy to arrange; in the scheme of things, not terribly expensive; contribute greatly to our family happiness—and yet it probably never would have occurred to me to do it if my friend hadn’t suggested it.
Rubin, Gretchen. REAL SIMPLE.
http://simplystated.realsimple.com/life/2008/03/unforgettable-a.html
Mar 3, 2008.
i'm off to yuma this weekend for a few sessions. i think it's going to be such a fun change in scenery. and not only a change of scenery but four boys and 14 chickens. just wish their pig was there too (he's at the county fair)! :-)
still working on the revamping of deb schwedhelm photography. it's exciting but it just seems that there's not enough time in a day to get things done as fast as i'd like. hopefully by the end of the month though...that's my goal.
and a skyler funny...
by looking at my little ones today, one would have thought it was 100 degrees out (but it wasn't; it was 79). so, we're on our way home from shopping and sky's slumped in the back seat, looking like she just got done running a marathon.
sky: mom, you going to von's?
me: yea sky, why?
sky: good. i need to go by the cooler thing.
me:
sky: yea, there's a cold spot there and i'm hot.
omg. seriously. she wants to go to the grocery store so she can hang out in the freezer area and get cool. good thing we don't live somewhere really hot. she'd really be in trouble.
lasty...for J, who as we were leaving our session the other day, said, can you put me on your website? as i promised J, here you go...and thanks for such a wonderful time!
these shots at the beach are awesome..and I love the article from Real Simple..
Love the pictures! I love the article you shared too I even shared it in my blog as well.. it's that moving ..thanx.