<span class="drop_cap">I</span>f you are a Facebook friend of mine, you will probably recognize the photo below that I recently uploaded. It's my husband, my daughter, and my dog (who sneaks into every single family photo). I adore this photo. It's real. It's honest. It's intimate. Her hair is wild as always, my husband is at his happiest. She's  holding her toys. Her cute little toes are pointed. There are toys on the floor. My dog is in the photo but not perfectly posed. 

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These are the kinds of photos I want to give to my clients, ones that mean something, ones that are natural. I want them to be ‘real’ in the sense that we aren’t dressed up, we aren’t sucking in our guts, we aren’t looking at the camera cheesing it up, we don’t have cutesy props, we aren’t over-edited to the point where we don’t even look like ourselves anymore. I want our images to portray us as a family as we always are, captured in an emotionally powerful way on ‘film’ (and in a way that looks as real and honest as film). I find myself cuddled in my bed with my family, my dog lying by the side of the bed, my hair messy, and thinking, “Where’s a photographer when I need them?”

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