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10/10/2014

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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. 
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10/10/2014 07:52:44 am

I'm finding what makes someone a good photographer tends to go against what makes them a good subject for photography. We'd rather blend into the wall so we can get those kickass candids.

My favorite shots tend to come when the people I'm shooting have forgotten I'm shooting them.

So, while I don't aspire to be documented as much as I aspire to document, I do sometimes wish I had someone following me to capture a moment I'd rather experience than record (spending time with my wife, my dogs, traveling, etc.).

The problem with the spouse/sigoth also being a photographer is that then the couple would just have a bunch of good shots of them not together.

Any photographer knows well that moment where we hand the camera to a stranger to take a shot of us with our family, only to get the camera back and find the shot is out of focus or framed oddly. We're all too used to thanking strangers, while secretly wondering how they screwed up a shot with the camera in "auto" mode.

Guess this is what tripods and remote shutter releases are for.

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