M. Fitzgibbons Photography

M. Fitzgibbons Photography Lifestyle, Storytelling Portrait Photography in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
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If you're a mom feel taken for granted on this day...There’s a good chance you’re also the emotional center of someone’s...
05/10/2026

If you're a mom feel taken for granted on this day...

There’s a good chance you’re also the emotional center of someone’s entire universe.

Even on the days when nobody says thank you.
Even when the work feels repetitive or invisible.

Motherhood has made me a different artist.

I photograph people differently now because I understand love differently now.

Not as perfection.
Not as performance.
Not as dramatic gestures.

But as showing up again and again and again in small, ordinary ways that eventually become someone else’s childhood.

You're the magic makers.

AND IT MATTERS.

Before we visited this ghost town, I had been reading Hunting for Hidden Gold (vintage Hardy Boys) to my oldest son.It w...
05/10/2026

Before we visited this ghost town, I had been reading Hunting for Hidden Gold (vintage Hardy Boys) to my oldest son.

It was a predictably swashbuckling tale of intrigue set in a Montana mining camp.

I can't know what it might like feel like to be a 7 year boy, not yet secure in fact from imagination, to visit a place that felt like a chapter from that novel-

But fact and fiction blurred even for me. That book, filtered through my son's excitement, filtered through me, informed these photos of this desolate, windswept place.

That night was the first time we took our boys camping. We set up camp in the sage brush hills after wandering around these deserted buildings and dusty streets.

I lived many years of my life in Montana, and the smell of sage will always unlock memories for me.

Ghost towns aren't a relaxing place to bring young children. There's hidden nails and suspicious ancient wallpaper that your youngest may (read: will) want to explore with his hands.

But I'm I'm always in it for the stories. For richness of experience.

I hope you can feel that from the photos.

Photography Micro-tip #5: Prioritize connection over performance (with your subject)I talk to my boys while I have my c...
05/10/2026

Photography Micro-tip #5: Prioritize connection over performance (with your subject)

I talk to my boys while I have my camera, I don't ask them to pose. I've asked them if they even remembered I had my camera with us- and often they don't.

Walks like this with my youngest are special to me, and I also just don't want me having a camera with to become what the outing is all about.

✨️Save as a reminder

Parents: This is an emotional question, but...What's something you recently noticed your little (or bigger) one doing so...
05/09/2026

Parents: This is an emotional question, but...

What's something you recently noticed your little (or bigger) one doing something for likely the last time?

The last time they *adorably* mispronounced a certain word?
The last time they wanted you to walk them to the school door?
The last time they crawled instead of walked?

Parenting is this constant observation of watching one era fade while another one is born. As much as you celebrate the growth, I can never help feeling a particular type of sadness about the era that is fading, never to be again.

Sometimes I notice a certain action fading. But sometimes it's been months since it's happened and I suddenly realize...

"oh, they don't say/do that anymore"

It's probably why I take as many photos as I do of my own boys. I want to be able to find and feel that era again. I want to be able to hold it again, in any way I can 🤎

My thoughts on using phones for photos...I remember in my years before I re-approached photography seriously, I would be...
05/08/2026

My thoughts on using phones for photos...

I remember in my years before I re-approached photography seriously, I would be very excited when I got a new phone; and what I was excited about was always the camera improvement. (These were in the days where I was upgrading from a blackberry to an ancient Iphone).

I didn't have my own digital camera at that point, nor could I afford film development regularly.

So my phone was photographic instrument I had easy access to.

And it's an instrument.
An instrument with limitations, to be sure.

I personally don't like using the portrait modes of phones, the blur- because it's not created through a sophisticated lens, never looks like genuine bokeh to me.

But one thing phones DO do very well is simulate closed aperture, where the entire plane is in sharp focus. And that can be a fascinating look to explore.

It helps scenes become more poster-like, graphic, flat- as having uniform detail suppresses depth.

I was looking through phone shots over the years, and testing some new materials on them, and found that I actually found some of the photos quite success artistically if I pushed them even farther into that surreal- realm.

I've shared some phone shots below that- while I wouldn't present as professional work- I DO enjoy artistically.

And I will always encourage EVERYONE to make art however you can.

What about you- do you ever use your phone to take "art" photos (even accidentally), or do you use it only for the convenience?

Giveaway Winner announced in another post!If you didn't win, you still have a chance to unlock a bigger today-only disco...
05/08/2026

Giveaway Winner announced in another post!

If you didn't win, you still have a chance to unlock a bigger today-only discount. Help me out by commenting on the reel I just shared ✨️🌼

If I get 30 comments answering my question there by 3pm I'll increase the launch discount 💛

05/08/2026

Truly, I did!

Tell me: What year would you travel back to this afternoon, if you could?

If enough of you share yours, I’ll unlock a one-day launch offer for the Time Traveler Collection ✨️ (so don't skip it!)

Turns out time travel is real. It’s just significantly less scientific than we were promised.No wormholes. No flux capac...
05/08/2026

Turns out time travel is real. It’s just significantly less scientific than we were promised.

No wormholes. No flux capacitor. Just light, color, atmosphere, and a slightly concerning emotional attachment to vintage imagery.

✨ Introducing the TIME TRAVELER Collection ✨

A creative preset collection inspired by the feeling of decades past; sun-faded postcards, cinematic color, hazy summers, vintage travel imagery, 1970s landscapes, 1950s portraiture, and moments that feel more remembered than photographed.

These are not “fix every photo” presets.

They’re creative tools designed for the images that already carry a sense of story.

Some are soft and dreamy. Some are graphic and bold. Some lean warm and nostalgic, others cool and cinematic. Together, they create a transportive visual journey through time.

Included:
✦ 10 vintage-inspired presets
✦ Film-inspired masking tools
✦ Installation + usage guide
✦ Lightroom Classic editing walkthrough video
✦ Compatible with Lightroom Classic + Cloud

And because I’m still feeling sentimental reading all of your giveaway responses from the last few days…

Edit:
✨ GIVEAWAY WINNER Announced in another post ✨

Just for fun!

Tell me in the comments: if you could permanently live inside the visual atmosphere of any decade, what would you choose?

1950s lakeside summers?
1970s road trips?
1990s family vacation snapshots?
Something else entirely?

Winner announced tonight 🤍

Welcome aboard the time machine, friends.

What people think photographers care about vs what we actually care about...People think:😃perfect outfits☀️perfect weath...
05/07/2026

What people think photographers care about vs what we actually care about...

People think:

😃perfect outfits
☀️perfect weather
😁perfect smiles

Photographers actually care about:

✨connection
✨emotion
✨movement
✨trust
✨light
✨If you felt safe, and seen, and exactly like yourself

(Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments 🩵)

I’ve been reading through all of your giveaway responses from the last couple days and… I’m blown away, and so moved.The...
05/07/2026

I’ve been reading through all of your giveaway responses from the last couple days and…

I’m blown away, and so moved.

The way you described these presets; the words you chose and the feelings you attached to them; it was better than anything I've written about them myself 🥹

A few that stuck with me:

"This style feels like a summer road trip as a kid. Super nostalgic. Like the windows are down in the hatchback, hot air is coming in and it smells like pine needles and sun cream. We’re on the way to the river to camp for the weekend, there’s stuff smashing my feet because my mom over packs. Shania Twain is on the radio."

"It makes me feel the way I feel when I watch Stand By Me. It grips you and throws you back into the emotions of a different era - the era of impressions and becoming."

"I imagine getting that package back from the drug store, and going through the photos remembering the days that the photos were taken. Reliving the days and memories with smiles and laughter."

All of it was exactly what I was imagining when I created these, and then some (because creative endeavors always have a way of expanding on themselves) 🩵

Not something to make every photo perfect, but something that makes the right photos feel unforgettable, timeless, and lost in a beautiful daydream.

I’m so excited to share them with you soon ✨

For now I want to know...

What kind of images are you most drawn to creating lately?

Taking a step into a 1970s daydream is one way to side-step neon greens 🧡SOOC and edit
05/07/2026

Taking a step into a 1970s daydream is one way to side-step neon greens 🧡

SOOC and edit

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