They have trusted me with my camera to capture all that silly love since their oldest was just a baby. I love that I also photographed her brothers senior pictures, reading B’s facebook posts, and that her momma was my college sewing professor (did you know I was once going to be a Family & Consumer Sciences…aka Home Ec…teacher), but I mostly love that they let me capture them exactly as they are. Just perfectly imperfect. There are littles hiding behind mommy’s leg and loads of cuddles and laughter and tickles and dancing and races and tackles and books being read and the perfect flowers picked for our hair (mine is still sitting on my dashboard in my car) and walks to the garden and tomato pickin’ (“Daddy can I pick tomatoes with you?” Melt. My. Heart.) and the messiest “poses”. Our goal isn’t everyone looking at the camera. Our goal is capturing their family exactly as they are right now. I love walking into their house and seeing these images displayed everywhere, from large to small. I think sometimes people fear they wouldn’t know what to do with lifestyle photography session images because they aren’t the perfectly posed, everyone looking at the camera, type of images. But you can do with them exactly as you can do with any others, blow them up big and put them on your wall or create an album that shows your family’s love story. I may be a tad bit bias about this. I do, in fact, have a 20×30 image of a single curl on the top of my sons head when he was a baby hanging at the end of my hallway.
The biggest honor I can receive is hearing a family say “this is us”! Knowing I captured their family exactly as they are makes me so insanely happy. Even more than that, knowing they trusted me enough to be comfortable being themselves and loving on their family in front of my camera…this is the greatest gift. The love…it’s nearly tangible.
So much love,
Cilla
P.S. Y’all October is looking a little crazay (yes…cra-zay). I do still have a couple sessions available and some in November to receive your images and prints back in time for the holidays. Please don’t wait. Click HERE to contact me and get started booking your love filled session!
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