kiwi street families . gary, irene, seth & serena

i am going to admit something…i get nervous before every session. it’s the truth. i wonder about all the pieces of the puzzle that make up a session and how many ‘uncontrollables’ (as i like to say) there are.  i’m a good listener. i listen carefully to what my clients want and i know, by now, that the requests i get are 99% in line with how i like to portray what i see…as in, what you see on my website and blog is the kind of style you can pretty much expect.

{side bar… this is really 101…put out what you like and the the like will find you. i never understood why it is so hard for people to do just that. no matter what kind of thing you do. if you do what you love in a way that genuinely represents it and yourself, how can you go wrong.
easy, right? i know we can look around and see the anti-example of this all over the place. the ‘this is what i think i should be doing’ thing. anyway, i can’t say i’ve never done it, but when i was a little girl my father told me…just do what you love, your natural gift, do it well, and the rest will come.
i’ve always held close to that}

ok then. so why do i get so nervous if i’m doing what what i love? well. i simply want to give each of you the very best, most memorable, make you cry and laugh and never forget the day experience that i can in a way that is unique to you and no one else. it’s a tall order. i’m a pleaser. i hate to let anyone down.
so, on my way to you, i clear my head of everything except opening every inch of me to be there with you and watch for that magic. it is the same whether i know you or am just meeting you for the first time.
i know for a fact i am so not alone with this. why i felt that letting this out here and now was necessary…it just came out while i was thinking about this family and their session. i was nervous, yes, but as soon as irene walked up to me and i could see her face and eyes and see how happy she was to be doing this, it all melted away. there is a huge difference when someone values something. this is not about snapping a few pictures that will end up in a drawer. when i know that there is a mutual respect and true appreciation for this kind of experience and what it means, all the rest melts away and i can just do the thing that i love.
irene’s family let me do just that. it was a treat to spend the afternoon with the four of them catching little snippets of the open love they have each other. father, son. mother, son. father, daughter…a very tight family unit, no doubt.
another thing i must share about irene and gary…when they looked at each other, there was no one else in the world but the two of them. their magnetism was amazing!

so, now let me share a little of what they let me do and what i saw that day.