Happy Valentine’s Day Mums & Dads!
It all started with you! Yes those little people you made have stolen the show a little bit, but I hope this week you’re finding some time to celebrate “the couple” because, after all, you are the foundation upon which the family was built.
I was looking back through my archives on Sunday evening searching for a few photographs to build this blog post and actually it was so nice to take that trip down memory lane and remember some of the sweet couples I got to capture right at that moment before they embarked on their great big life together.
Back then I was a footloose and fancy free photographer who was always on the road and it really felt like I was just taking pictures of good friends about to take the leap and say "I do!".
Fast-forward to today and we’re all grown up with families of our own! And those same clients are coming back to me to ask me to take photographs of their children. It’s crazy and lovely all at the same time.
Many of these Mums and Dads in the making are now busy raising families of their own; juggling work with extra-curricular activities, play dates, nappies, pets, birthday parties and football kits! They collapse on the sofa at the end of each day and manage half an hour of something before they begin to feel themselves drifting off to sleep. They schedule two or three date nights a year when they can get childcare, but are sure to be home and in bed by 10pm. Every once in a while they manage to catch up with their friends and they have the best time, before retreating back into their own family life for a few weeks to recover from that big night out!
I know because I’m right there with them.
It’s a far cry from where we all were a decade ago when a lot of these photographs were taken. But it’s all part of this big beautiful journey that is life and there’s no better feeling as a photographer than clients coming back to say how precious these photographs are becoming now that chapter is behind them.
When we invest in photographs, we are 100% guaranteed to see an increase in value over time. And in the end, those photographs of the people we have loved will be our most prized possessions.
