my aperturic annual – 08.02.10

August 2nd, 2010 | Written by hurricanic

I suck.

(Hopefully you guys can come to grips with that as easily as I have this summer.)

I seriously have no idea what I was thinking taking this project on.  An image a week would’ve been a much better (and much more realistic) goal.  But in my typical personal style, I set lofty goals wanting to be extreme – all or nothing.  And in the inability to not be all, I settle for nothing.  I need to learn how to live in the middle a bit better.

I actually have some shots I’ve taken,  but I don’t have the time to post them.  We’re backlogged at work, and I just can’t seem to get ahead.  They’ll come at one point.  Promise.

In the meantime, I will tell all of you my shoots as of late professionally have been great.  I feel a new surge of passion and energy for my craft – looking for new spots, trying out new light, having fantastic clients…this summer has been amazing.  Sans the heat, of course.  I am sitting here downloading images from a shoot where my car registered 104 degrees at one point as we were between locations.  Yikes.  Thanks to Photoshop, however, the poor kid won’t appear as though he was pitting out.  As much as everyone loves sweaty armpits in their senior pics…

I thought since I haven’t shot a lot in the last couple weeks personally, I would show you one of my favorite images EVER captured while shooting my friend Steve and his family.  Steve was a high school friend of mine.  He married the lovely and wonderful Sarah.  They made beautiful babies.  And as most do when families are families, they wanted photos taken.

This is seriously a moment captured during the shoot.  No Photoshop craziness blending multiple images together.  And as much as I’m sure it won’t make the living room mantle, I can’t help but feel like this image captures the truth of what family portrait sessions really involve.

hilarious

“Everyone say, ‘CHEESE!!!!!’”

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  1. sarah posted the following on August 2, 2010 at 10:37 pm.

    Girl. This photo is classic! You captured it! I am honored it is your favorite pic EVER. Well, thus far…

  2. leah posted the following on August 14, 2010 at 4:58 pm.

    that is hilarious. wow. how many moments do you go through like that every week? oh the drama!

  3. hamster posted the following on August 26, 2010 at 9:50 pm.

    best laugh of the week! genius!