Want to see what I’ve been up to?
Well, first there were a few Ivy Tech events; one in Bloomington at IU and one in Indianapolis…
Then I had a senior portrait session on a gorgeous day with Marissa. This is one of my absolute favorites from her session. Don’t you love her eyes?!
And an engagement at the park… Jennifer and Tom were great to work with. Jennifer was a little camera-shy at first, but I think we’ve got some pictures from their session that they will really treasure.
And then I had a session with Sopia, who is just nine days old here. I photographed her parents’ wedding a few years ago and I was glad to see them again and meet their little one!
This picture is also proof of how crazy I am for good pictures… I saw this wrap online and with three hours before Sophia’s session, I sat down and crocheted one for us to use. It worked like a charm, once we figured out how to get her in there!
I will be the first person in the world to tell you that I have a great job. I have the *perfect* job for me. I do basically the same thing every time I go to work, from loading my gear to setting up my camera to working with people, yet it’s also something new every time. I meet new people, photograph new faces, try new ideas and work in new locations. It’s taken me a while to come to terms with myself as a “professional” anything, but here I am as a professional photographer.
I’ve often flippantly told people that one of the best parts about my job is all the wedding cake I get to eat. And I have eaten some really good cake. But I’ve also done some other cool stuff. I’ve photographed the Governor of Indiana. I’ve photographed the Indiana Secretary of State. I’ve been on the floor at Conseco Fieldhouse and on the field of the RCA Dome (which was imploded last month). I’ve done pageants and football. I’ve spent two solid days photographing wrestling on my knees. I once photographed a fashion show where the models walked the runway with kitchen faucets and bathroom shower heads.
Still, and I want desperately to be able to say this without sounding cheesy… The most important part of my job is capturing the memories. I was telling Mark the other day how I feel about this. I am one single person, but the product that I create is something that will be looked at twenty-five or fifty years from now, or maybe even longer. I have family pictures that go back to the 1800’s. It’s entirely conceiveable that someone will be looking at my work in the middle of the next century. Someone is going to want a picture of their great-great grandparents’ wedding. Someone is going to wonder about the styles that were popular when their grandmother was a senior in high school. Someone is going to laugh at a picture of their dad as a bare-naked baby.
This is the responsibility of my job, and I feel it as an enormous one. I am taking pictures for people to help them relive how they felt, who they were, what happened. I take pictures for children who aren’t born yet, to show them how happy their parents were on their wedding day. I take pictures for the years to come, when someone’s father or grandfather has passed away, so that they can look back and remember.
Isn’t that a great job to have?
