Photos

I love photos.  Photos bring me so much Joy!

The definition of photos is “images taken by a camera”. 

I have always loved having good cameras to take photos and when Emma was in Kindergarten I bought my first iPhone which has been brilliant at capturing photos so easily on my phone. 

I love taking photos.  I love taking a lot of photos.

I love taking photos to capture special days and dates.  This is very important to me.  When it is Birthdays and special occasions I am very focused on making sure we get the ‘perfect’ shots.

We even have a ‘photo tree’, the tree out the front of our home, where I love getting photos of our children and family on special events or special dates. 

Luckily we have a great neighbour and dear friend who knows how much I love photos, and who, on so many occasions, is willing to take photos of our family - as I love a family photos on key events.  And I am always grateful.

My neighbour and other friends and family members are discovering my idiosyncracy of me wanting the photo to ensure all limbs are in the photos - I want feet in and arms in - yes I like the full length photos rather than our family being cut off at the ankles.  I even tell strangers who we might meet at the park or the beach where I ask them to take a family photos and I say “thanks so much and could you please do a full length and make sure you get in our feet too” and then we have a laugh with my hubby about it.

I know I drive my children and husband crazy wanting to take photos yet I love capturing the special days and special moments in time.

I love taking photos of my children.  I love taking photos of my husband with my children.  And I love when my husband takes photos of me with my children.

I love taking the photos where everyone is smiling and I always say to my daughter “happy eyes” -and my girl knows exactly what I mean - when I say it, my daughter smiles, her face lights up and she has a sparkle in her eyes. 

I also love capturing the moment, like when my children open their Christmas presents or doing an Easter hunt. 

Or it could be me simply taking photos of simple moments such as my boy loving eating his spaghetti the other night. 

I try to remind myself to be in the moment and enjoy the moment rather than always being behind the camera - and often now as I take a photo I look above the camera to really enjoy the moment

too. 

I love when I check photos and see that I did capture the perfect shot.  Seeing a great photo definitely brings me Joy!

I love taking photos of nature when I am out and about on my daily walks.  I love taking photos of food and my cooking creations.    

I love seeing other people’s photos too where they are capturing a moment or big smiles on a special day.

I love looking back at photos and remembering these special times with my children. 

This week was the first week back fulltime at school, ending homeschool.  I took the day off as I knew it would be busy getting my children to school plus it would be emotional and I just feel exhausted too and decided to take a break.  As I was doing my daughter’s hair I said we will take a quick photo at the photo tree.  When we got outside it was starting to rain yet my daughter raced to our photo tree and put on her “happy eyes” smile and I took some snaps.  Throughout the day I felt flat, missing my girl, so I looked through the photos from our homeschooling days and felt joy as I looked back capturing some of these moments.  The time in isolation with my children was a special time and I am grateful for the time we had together and loved I took photos.

It also brings me Joy that my photos upload so easily to iCloud and are safely stored which brings me peace of mind too.  I just need to get a plan and put some time into storing all of my other photos.

Photos bring me so much Joy.  I am also grateful for the photos I have from my childhood which trigger memories of my life.  And I love looking at the photos of the life of my Parents too - where I know they are Joyful when we sit down and look at photos together.

Taking photos and looking at photos and making photobooks with my photos bring me so much Joy.