The couple that gave me my start!
I was driving home the other day after dropping the girls off with Paw Paw in Reno and since my stereo sucks ass I had to listen to what was going on in my head.
I passed through the town that I had done a photoshoot in and it got me to thinking about this couple.
Alyx had a field trip to the “Puzzle People” and I had taken some interesting pictures while I was there and I sent the pictures to the couple after I got home and played with them a bit. She asked me if I would come up and shoot her grandkids when they came to town.
I agreed even though at that point I had not ever done a paid photo shoot. I had gone to a couple weddings and did some free work to get the hang of it, but they had a different photographer there.
I was more nervous about getting lost driving up to their business than I was of actually doing the shoot.
The kids were cute and very polite, but I needed a better backdrop. They suggested we drive a ways up to their home and get pictures there. When I pulled up to their home I nearly cried because it was the home I had always dreamed of having. A cabin in the woods. They walked me around their property and I got the pictures and listened to their story of their home, what plants were which and I was in awe of the love they had for each other. At the time I wasn’t married to DB and I am not certain we even lived together yet, but I wanted so badly what they had. He would reach over and grab her hand as they walked through the property and they would laugh at the memory of when they put in the new bridge or when the dogs would completely ignore the bridge and go lay in the water.
This is what I wanted so much. Someone to share this kind of love with even when were both long past sexy and rolling into ‘adorable’.
She handed me the check for the photoshoot and I was so excited I didn’t want to even cash it.
This couple gave me my start in photography. I’m most proud of this because it was by myself and because it was then I learned what I wanted most in life.
This picture to me everything all in one. MY photography. The love I will always strive to provide and earn. To be gentle and gracious with this life.