Found: Capturer of Lifetime Memories! A Holiday Family Portrait is a tradition in my wife's family. Sounded like torture to me, but my wife is so passionate about it that I brought my best holiday cheer and widest smile back in 2012. Kami showed up to our door, equipment in tow, just as 6 year old Sofie's grown up dress shoes resulted in a cartwheel down the stairs. After the standard parental worry for our daughter, the next thought was, This photographer is going to be so annoyed. But nope. Not then, and not when we made a last minute decision to leave the house and go to an outdoor site 10 minutes away. And not when we had to traipse in new fallen snow. And not when the children were being um, children. And the pictures? Almost a year later, unsolicited, at least a handful of friends said they were looking forward to our new holiday card since the last one was still posted on some frig or bulletin board, having been the best picture/card of All Time. (No, really: g u s h i n g.) So now it's my tradition too. And since then, our families and our kids have intersected in many ways in the community and so I get it: Kami is a mother and a wife first, a friend second, and an amazing photographer third. But moreover, I get this too: 100 years from now, when we are gone but stories of our family live on, it will be the joy and love that Kami so skillfully captures that will be worth the thousand words that narrate our lives. | |
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