Daddy’s Day

Posted on June 20, 2009

I take LOTS of photos. I usually have at least 100 personal images to dig through each week, but sometimes more. I work my best to immediately go through and delete the ones with closed eyes, bad expression, etc., label the keepers for reference and do a little editing to them, but sometimes I just upload the images to my computer, get distracted and (gasp) forget to look at them!! This is UNACCEPTABLE! I need to seriously strive to put the same time and attentiveness with my personal images as I do my client’s images, but alas…there aren’t endless hours in the day!

Since David is currently deployed I wanted to give him something personalized and special for Fathers Day from his two little girls. So I decided to create a book for him. So I began digging through all our personal images and I found so many pictures that I just ADORE and I’d completely forgotten about! I loved going through our family pictures and remembering the moment, it was so special! Here are a hand full of  a few of the layouts in his Daddy’s Day book. I know he’s loving flipping through this while he’s away! Some of the images I chose were pretty and others were just natural not at all perfect. But I loved them all for different reasons!

This first one is a great example of printing something that isn’t technically perfect. The two images on the right aren’t perfect at all…Kate was actually kicking my legs as I took it and I know in the top one especially I was losing my balance as I shot it (which is one of the reasons why Claire’s head isn’t even in the frame at all!) And the second image on the right Kate is a blurry mess. But you know what? It reminded me of our LIFE, Kate always moving. Claire hanging being chill and hanging in her Bumbo, Daddy on the floor playing with them, that’s life!! Bad composition, blur and all.

These are special to me because this is our last Spring here in Germany and the last chance we had for images in the yellow flowers. They are gone now and man I miss them! Glad Daddy was home JUST in time for me to capture these before he left.

These are images I COMPLETELY forgot about!! How sad is that??? Glad I dug through and found them!

More natural shots of my precious girls.

So here is my challenge to you – take LOTS of personal pictures. Don’t forget what you’ve captured (HAAA!), and print them in a way where they are easy to enjoy – for your walls or in a book that is out and easy for you to flip through and enjoy. It really does make me sad how so many great photos are stuck on hard drives and not enjoyed. So while digital photography is AMAZING and computers are even more nifty…nothing really compares to having those precious photos in hand…nothing like it.

Happy Daddy’s Day everyone!!! Now go out and print a picture of the #1 Daddy in your life…your own Dad or your kiddo’s Dad…and while you are at it print a picture of you, and your kids, and your pets, and your home and…well you get the picture (pun intended) – just PRINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!