Your story is a collection of tiny precious moments. Your deserve a photographer to help tell that story. At the rate we move day to day, it can be impossible to take the time to really notice the little things that bring us joy.  Make the effort to have your family documented in photographs.  These will preserve these sacred spaces for you to come back to later.  You can pull them up to savor the memory of the impish side-eye, the perfect curl, or the tiny toes.  A good photograph can conjure up the smell of your toddler’s freshly washed hair, the sound of their giggles, and the warmth of their biggest hugs.  It can be a pain to get it organized and scheduled, but your story is worth the effort.  Capturing your family’s little moments is only one of the reasons you deserve to book a photographer.

Make time to let go

What a great gift it is to let someone else boss your family around for a little while.  It feels glorious to let someone else do the orchestrating and organizing for a little while. So let yourself step into the swirling, beautiful chaos, and just let go of the reins for a little while.  (We all know our kids often take direction better from a different adult anyway.)

Get in the Frame

We all have a camera in your pocket most of the time.  We are often pulling out our phones for quick snapshots of our daily lives.  The problem is that so often we aren’t in these frames because we are directing the people on the other side.  The value of a professional photographer is not just about getting all the people in the shot, but about drawing your eyes and your heart to the connections and moments the shot contains.   

Get a different perspective

You deserve to have a photographer’s unique perspective documenting your family. Moments captured from a different view can evoke emotions deep within us.  Photographers take great effort to cultivate an eye for the angles and the lighting that will pull you into the frame.  A tight shot of a hand on a belly or a pulled back frame of racing children both have their place.  

Be in the Moment

A great photographer will notice the moments unfolding in real time, so you can be IN the moment.  We spend so much of our lives on high alert.  If someone else is in charge of the documenting, you get to relax in the moment.  So take a breath, smell that hair, feel those curls, notice that tiny hand.  You deserve to hire the photographer. You deserve this time.  You deserve these moments.  You deserve to enjoy your story.