When was the last time you were in front of the camera with your kids instead of behind it?
I'm a mom. I know there are so many times I would rather keep my sunglasses on and hide behind the lens. But what always strikes me are the comments from my daughters when they see a photo of me with them! They see our connection in a different way, it's a visual reminder of my love for them, and it makes time stand still.
The photo below was taken during a family reunion on St. George Island many years ago. My daugthers are now grown up - one in graduate school and the other graduating from college next week! The photo represents 3 generations - there are so many stories in this image and so much family history. It's definitely one of my all time favorites! My girls are the two who had enough of photos at the beach - it was time to get in the ocean for them!
"I’m everywhere in their young lives, and yet I have very few pictures of me with them. Someday I won’t be here — and I don’t know if that someday is tomorrow or thirty or forty or fifty years from now — but I want them to have pictures of me. I want them to see the way I looked at them, see how much I loved them. I am not perfect to look at and I am not perfect to love, but I am perfectly their mother," from The Mom Stays In The Picture by Allison Tater Slate.
This Mother's Day, make a promise to yourself that you'll get in some of the photos instead of only taking them.
Happy Mother's Day!
*Photo Credit: Peg Oeltmann, my aunt, who inspired me to start my photography business.
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