Thank you for visiting my blog. I'm located in south Gilbert, Arizona. I have twin daughters and one little boy...between the three of them, they keep my days busy between gymnastics and soccer. My children and husband are my biggest support each day.
After finishing up my girls three year session, I took a few minutes to photograph my girlfriend's grandmother. For the past few years I've seen her and craved camera time but never wanted to impose. I wanted to do more than create a portrait. I wanted to create her story... her legacy. The story she began when she was born and is now being carried on and told through her daughters.
This lady raised an wonderful woman whom I am truly fond of. She is the grandmother to one of my dearest and closest friends and her sister.
With each meeting, I find my breathe taken away by the peaceful look on her face or the smirk she wears, and the stories of whit that she has left her granddaughters to tell. I see this women surrounded by the beautiful women she raised. The beautiful women who are her legacy. A legacy of love, faith, courage, whit, and happiness. And when I write faith, it is a faith in honesty, goodness and integrity of those around them. The three qualities that are and should be most admirable. The qualities that make them better people, leading them to see the better in others.
While I don't know this woman personally, I feel as though I have. I do know her story. I know her children. I know the women she has raised and they are amazing. While I would love to capture her and create 100 years of life story...it already was created and it is being told through her daughter and grandchildren's lives.
A girlfriend once said..."her child was her greatest accomplishment in life." There honestly couldn't be any statement more true. Being a mother to my three beautiful children is my biggest accomplishment in life. This woman merely puts priorities into perspective.
5 comments:
You are such an amazing photographer! This is great.
oh how I wish my mom was still here ... I would have loved a beautiful photograph taken by you. I would have also wondered what you would have said about her ~ I know you would have loved her. LYG, N
I LOVE these. So how did you go about doing it? Did you just tell her you were gonna take pics while talking to her. I want to get more of my grandma but I feel like I"m imposing but I know if I dont I will regret it more than I can ever imagine later
hey leah...i couldn't agree with you more in regretting not taking the time or going ahead and imposing! i try not to live with regret...but yet i have ONE>..not taking time to photograph my grandmother before she passed two years ago... Leah..don't live with regret!
AND..i'll email you with the other details on how I shot this! xoxo thanks for your comment!
Beautifully said and photographed.
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