06/05/2026
I remember snapping this photo in our backyard. It seems like just yesterday, but here we are 5 years, and hundreds (if not thousands) of images later. Before I turned my little camera hobby into a business, I practiced on my own kids. It started when my youngest was just a month old, and I couldn't believe what a difference using manual mode made on the quality of those images.
This particular afternoon, my girls had raided the dress-up bin and turned our backyard into their own little world. A boa, some Elton John-worthy sunglasses, a hat with what I can only describe as cosmic horns... and one very serious three-year-old who was absolutely NOT playing around. She had a vision, okay?
What I love most about this photo isn't the outfit (though iconic, truly). It's that I was there. I was present enough to pick up my camera instead of just watching it happen. Because now, five years later, THIS is what I have. Not just a memory that fades a little more every year, but proof. Proof that she was three and wild and wonderful and so entirely herself.
That's why I do what I do. These are the moments worth keeping.
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