We are turning to a simpler format on Who We Become and starting “Fresh.” Please visit the blog to see all the Fresh images and the discussion by clicking HERE.
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We visited the tulips this week! We love the tulip festival so much that we are sure to go again. For me it’s the flowers and the photo opportunities. For the girls, it’s the mud and the ice cream. Whatever keeps them happy! 😉 Please click HERE to visit Let Them Be Little and see all the littles this week.
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Why yes, my Let Them Be Little image this week is from the doctor’s waiting room again. No, it’s not from the same shoot as last week – nor is it from our visit today. It’s just where we have been spending our time these days. Please click HERE to see how all the other littles are faring.
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We have been hit by the germs this week. Both my girls are on antibiotics (and between the two of them, they’d only been on antibiotics *once* before then since they were born). This image is from yesterday waiting to see the doctor at Urgent Care. Please click HERE to see how the other littles are faring on Let Them Be Little.
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We are continuing to work on shooting for ourselves on Who We Become. This week we are discussing specific steps that we may try to do this. One thing I have been trying is to shoot more film. Film forces me to slow down, to work very deliberately on my focus and to pay more attention to composition and other details in camera. I like shooting film outdoors, because film loves (and requires) lots of light, but shooting film indoors is much more difficult. Working on a technical skill requires a certain level of concentration and I appreciate that. I recently acquired a manual focus camera that is particularly tricky. I don’t know if I will love the images I am creating right away, but I am glad to be practicing these techniques regardless. Please click HERE to visit Who We Become and see all the images on the blog this week.
Letters to Our Daughters (March 2015)
I have been participating in a blog circle with some wonderful photographers who are also mothers of girls. Each month (more or less), we write a letter to our daughters to preserve thoughts and memories of this time in our lives. I treasure being able to do this for my girls and I love the chance to see the messages that my friends leave for their own daughters. You can access all the letters by clicking HERE. Once you have read my letter, please follow continue on to see what my friend Jennifer Vititoe wrote by clicking HERE.
Dear Avery and Alexa,
My babies, my monkeys, my little loves, my trouble-makers. I love you both more than words can say.
In last month’s letter I promised to try to photograph your everyday more, and I have been doing a little better I think. I worried that you would run from my camera, and at times you have, but at other times you’ve been willing participants. Like this one above, which makes me laugh so much. Grandma and Abaji were visiting, so we’d gone for lunch down the street at The Hi Spot. And on our way back, you discovered this new bike rack that has been installed by one of the new buildings. You were happy to be goofballs for me! You love to be silly – you’re such happy kids.
You were willing to be photographed for the 90 second challenge for Let Them Be Little, too. These pictures below are outtakes from that. You just wanted to be able to choose your outfits and accessories. I was hoping for hats, boas and sunglasses, but you have your own ideas now. I wouldn’t mind if you were a bit more agreeable to my ideas at times, but I am glad that you make your own decisions and speak your minds.
You’ve been getting more and more grown-up lately. Last month, Alexa, you were on skis for the first time. You didn’t love going to ski school each morning, but you were so proud of yourself and your new skills. You told us that you know how to ski, that you did it all by yourself. Your dad and I skied up and hid so we could watch you. We saw you – going up the magic carpet, turning both directions, slowing to a stop – and I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud of you. You could have asked for a puppy at that moment and I would have said ok. 😉
Avery, you are in your last year of preschool and I am starting to get really sentimental about that. Next year, you are going to be in kindergarten, 5 days a week, for 6 hours a day. I am going to miss you so much. We have been looking at a lot of schools for you and for one you had to go to the school for an assessment, essentially an interview. I was so nervous about it, but you were just excited to be there. You wanted to check out the playground, see the bunnies and chickens – you were just immediately comfortable. I love that you love school – that learning is fun and that you have this wonderful, curious mind. I also love that you have this kind, caring personality. You take care of the younger kids at preschool, and you are drawn to all sorts of creatures, great and small. You like learning about great white sharks, but you also like collecting worms. Just yesterday at the playground you came crying to me that a boy had stepped on your worm and hurt it. You are a kind soul and I am so proud of you for it.
I love you both so much!
love,
Mama
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This week on Let Them Be Little we are revisiting one of our favorite projects: the 90-second challenge. We photograph our kids for 90 seconds (give or take) and record the results. This time I took pictures of my girls together, so you can see how they interact. It’s pretty hilarious. Please click HERE to see all the 90-second collages over on Let Them Be Little.
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This week we are looking at images that we took only for ourselves. I happen to be in the midst of editing through a large backlog of unedited photos and I came across this image. It isn’t typical of my work and it isn’t a favorite, but there is something about it that makes me keep coming back. Such a creepy vibe. I don’t expect anyone else to be drawn to this, but there is a part of me that appreciates that I can create a feeling in myself with a photo. Please click HERE to visit Who We Become and see all the shares this week.
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Alexa is getting older – for the first time, her haircut included having her hair washed first. Please click HERE to visit Let Them Be Little and see all the littles on that blog.
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This week on Who We Become we are considering photos we take for other photographers. I chose this image of Alexa because of the simple background and the interesting directional light (though the strange shadow patterns are perhaps just for me and not really for other photographers, who would perhaps criticize the image for that reason). Please click HERE Who We Become and see all the images this week.
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