On July
8, I had a great opportunity to share with family something that I really love
doing. My brother and his fiancé asked
if I would do their engagement pictures.
What an awesome experience to share with them one of the major
milestones in their lives together. I
love my work and a lot of that has to do with the gratification I feel by
helping to create and preserve important moments in others lives for them…with
them. So imagine how wonderful it was to
get to do what I do best for people that I have known for years (and in my
brother’s case his whole life). The
pictures turned out amazing and the love that they have for one another
translated well. Thank you little
brother for allowing me to participate in this part of your life! I will treasure it always.
I had the
great opportunity the day before to do another couple’s photos the day
before. Even though I barely know them,
I still desire to provide them with great pictures. There is something special about what I do and
I am not saying that because it is something that I love. I say it because people hire me to help them
to preserve those fleeting moments in their lives. Years later, these people will be looking at
their pictures and remember something magical was happening that day or remind
them of another time in their lives.
People are inviting me in, even if for a short moment in time, to be
part of something important to them.
Weddings, engagement, maternity, newborn, graduations… these are all
landmark times in one’s life and there is nothing more important than
remembering them.
Pictures…images,
if done right, can do that. They can
capture those special moments that one might forget until he or she takes out
that album or puts that disc in the computer and the day comes back as fresh as
the day it happened. That is what I look
forward to every time I take that camera out of the bag. –DJM
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