08/18/2024
"For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven…Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time." (Ecclesiastes 3:1,11)
And it has been beautiful! Beautiful friendships, beautiful memories, and soooo many beautiful photos.
I’ve been praying about my photography business for over a year. For a few years, I’ve been battling a pinched nerve in my neck that affects my shoulder and arm. It mostly flares during my senior photo season and by the end of the season, it’s unbearable. I started praying about this last year, thinking I’d cut back last year, and then I ended up having the busiest season of my career. I continued to pray and this summer God has made it abundantly clear that this season of my life is coming to a close.
As He closes this door, others are opening. Cliche, but true, and He couldn’t have made it more clear to me. While it is a definite answer to prayer, I’m still having mixed emotions. As I combed through thousands and thousands of photos for this slideshow (I hope I included everyone), I cried, I laughed, mostly cried, and I relived many special memories. My heart swelled at the moments captured, seeing personalities shine through still photos. My favorite part of being a photographer, other than the challenge of snapping perfect photos, was connecting with my subjects, making them comfortable, and helping them feel as beautiful/handsome as what I was seeing through my lens. I hope you felt that.
I will be fulfilling the commitments that I’ve already made and then will be retiring my camera…professionally, not personally. My grandbabies are my favorite subjects! I will continue to save your photos on hard drives and my website will stay up for a while, but will eventually be taken down.
I can’t thank you, my clients, enough! I pray that you cherish the photos that you have and that you continue to take many, many more! Thank you for the past 10 years and God bless!
