When I spend time with my kids, or my family for that matter, I rarely bring my camera. Not that I don’t want to capture the moments, but being a photographer, sometimes it’s just super important for me to just BE in the moment. Another reason it’s great to hire a photographer for your special family moments, so that you can actually be a participant rather than an observer

When I got to the zoo however, there was inspiration all around. It was stunning, the little pockets of details. I couldn’t help but pull out my iphone and take a few snaps. I’m sort of conflicted about the zoo. I know they do a lot of great work, and help a lot of animals, but sometimes I look at the animals and wonder if they would be better off in their natural habitats. On this day, the elephants were especially restless. And yes, I am completely ignorant on the subject- so it’s just an observation. Either way, we had a great time spending time together. We even played hookie the rest of the day from school and roamed around to explore a little more. We trekked all the way back to the opposite end of the park one more time to get one last glimpse of our faves, the chimpanzees!
Enjoy~ our day at the zoo, iphone polaroid style.

It had been awhile since I’d photographed my sweet girl. She is busy as ever, has lots of other things to do than hang out with her mom and her mom’s camera. But I knew that I wanted to capture these sweet days, savor the last days that my baby was 10, ten years of life, a full decade of love.

And so we ran out, captured the closing-in of the day. Scouting a new spot, helping her mama out, but really just stealing a few little glimpses into her world. Because they are just glimpses, such fleeting embers in time and then they drift away…and onto the next year…11.