Little eyes

I'm cheating this month in that I'm not posting something that I feel like truly pushed me creatively, but it was a satisfying photo shoot nonetheless. My friend, Heather, has generously hired me for the past four years to work with her family to do their yearly photo shoot; while I haven't taken many clients due to the impending baby deadline, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with the Jenkins yet again. I admire my friend a great deal; she is a fantastic mother, always pushing her three creatively little ones to explore the world and not to be trapped by mindless activities and material wastelands. There are some beautiful things that come from working with the same clients for four years as well. We get along swimmingly! I know them and they know me and we know what to do together. This year's shoot was at our children's library, Imaginon, and it is one my favorite locations in the city because of the fun mix of whimsy, color, texture, and light, and it definitely captured the personality of their family. I went into the shoot not feeling my best. In fact, I felt like a rather un-creative lump whose only purpose was to incubate a baby and whose existence had no cognitive or creative value. However, this is where practice and experience are huge values to the creative arts as I was able to lean on previous experience to draw out my creative self and shake the cobwebs off.