We have tons of photos of our kids doing – Here’s Henry chasing a grasshopper! Here’s Ian jumping on a trampoline! – but we have almost no photos of them just being, and particularly being together without the doing part taking over. This session was important to us as a way of capturing what our kids actually look like in this fleeting moment of childhood – their smiles and the details of their faces (when they aren’t contorting them into some kind of crazy grimace), Henry’s curls and Ian’s pointy little ears. The details that get lost when you’re trying to capture other kinds of fleeting childhood moments like a bike ride or a jump into the water.
What we loved most about the session was getting a chance to take some photos that captured those details, and really show us our children, just as they are right now.
My favourite photo is the one of the four of us walking through the garden.
Henry has the most amazing smile, and is generally a smiley kid, but darned if I’ve ever been able to catch him at it in a photo. But there it is! – big and wide and a little too intense. This may be the most ‘Henry’ of the many many photos ever taken of our youngest. The rest of us look good too, but that’s the highlight for me.”
