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Chris shooting the sunset in Santorini during dinner at Argo on our honeymoon.

Photographers live the life. 

I love following various photographers on social as they capture everything from engagement shoots and weddings, to births and family shots. I love all of them. Every single photo gives me a little insight into that person's world--whether it's a baby getting it's first bath by mom, or a couple sharing their first moment as husband and wife. 

Photographers get to capture these moments daily. They get to make their own schedules, spend countless hours editing at coffee shops, and travel the world on someone else's dime (or at least in my imagination they do). 

However, photographers are so consumed with living in someone else's moment that they rarely get to live in and experience their own. 

I think I put it best the other day when I posted this very image to FB by saying, "Photographers live through the beautiful images they capture, yet, they are rarely captured in the beautiful moments themselves."

I'd like to ask any photographers reading this post: Do you ever wish your best friend, spouse, partner, etc. was also a photographer? I sometimes wonder if my husband wishes I was. That way for as many times as he has captured me in a scenic shot, I could do the same for him. 

Photographers deserve to have the moments of their lives captured in beautiful photographs just as much as their subjects do. 

They spend their lives devoted to giving others a treasure...
A treasure in the form of a photograph...
A photograph of a moment in time they wish could be paused and lived in forever. 

I absolutely treasure this photograph.