My boy recently said, your always taking photos of other peoples children, how about me? And do you know what? He is absolutely right. I haven't had any beautiful photos of him in over 6 months. Life is getting hectic, and deep inside of me, there is this niggling feeling that I am not giving my children the time and special memories they deserve. I sit on the computer, doing what I love, yes, but in the same way, I get the guilts for not always listening to them until I have finished editing images, getting a bit careless and slap dash with their meals and the time I spend with them, while being obsessively perfectionistic with the photos. It's not really the best way to be, is it. While they are just so little, still, and need the time together to grow and learn. To blossom, with their mothers hand there to grab hold of, if they teeter on the edge.
This shoot was all about them. My beautiful sweet and entirely precious children.
In this day and age, with technology advancing in every single way, and so quickly too, it is just so easy to capture your children, or travels or just about anything on the video camera, or phone, and have a little snap shot of the moment. In a way, I love doing that, telling the story of an hour or two spent together, in the photographs I take. Here is our afternoons story, along the no longer used train track, in the adelaide hills.
My serious boy.
Well, maybe not so serious...
Looking through an old Anderson's fairy tales book... with all the grimm tales, un altered for children's ears...
Sweet cuddles for two great friends.
Can a kiss turn him into a handsome prince?
Maybe it's just her big brother, hidden beneath a wicked spell...
Anything you can do, I can do too...
Let's go home...
