Today is going to feel like a life time ago this time next year. Whether you are pregnant with your first child, waiting the birth of your fifth child or even cheering on your child at high school or (gulp) university graduation, time waits for no one. The moments that matter so much vary for us all. But that is why photography is so important. It allows these memories to become tangible.
Just imagine it is 25 years from now and you are standing in your family home. Before you is a bookshelf full of family albums and boxes of prints. They are brimming over with your memories, all the moments that seem so long ago and yet no time ago at all.
There’s the time before the kids arrived, when it was just you and the one you love the most, travelling the world. Your goosebump covered skin when you kiss. Or the time you were pregnant with your first child and you both lay on the couch, excitedly swapping names, quietly imagining the first glimpse, the first touch.
And then there was the time when you brought your youngest home from hospital to meet their siblings. Chaos and sleep deprivation paralleled with moments of total calm, the way your baby fitted into the crook of your arm just so. How could you ever forget that time?
Road trips to the beach, new family pets, camping trips, ice cream melting in your hands, learning to ride a bike, story time in the nursery, pancakes on a Saturday. Baby teeth, no front teeth, messy hair, braces, that tutu they wore to bed for months, that security blanket. The freckles on your little girl’s nose. How your little boy’s eyelashes sweep to infinity.
All the bits and pieces of everyday that make up the story of your family life. There it is – on that shelf, right in front of you. Your stories, so that you can hold, share, turn the pages and enjoy today and in years to come.
Family photos are more than just pretty pictures. They are you. They are your connections and interactions and love and belly laughs. They will never be lost. They will never be erased. They are your legacy, family heirlooms that are passed around the living room and become sacred threads in the fabric of your life.