these moments fit together piece by piece creating the most sublime puzzle of all – your childhood. this foundation is immeasurably poignant to me. yet, our time spent wrapped up in one another often feels fuzzy. it is like a part of me is right with you, holding your tiny hands, tucking your wild hairs behind your ears, hearing the stories you tell, delighting in the way the light always seems to find you, loving every single particle of you. then there is this other part of me that is floating above it all. it is like i am in the audience watching a brilliant play set in the past. our time together is brief. as one moment slides into the next, another memory is being made. each one is just as exceptional, yet obscure. they are foggy memories with that beautiful light that follows you and cherishes you almost as profoundly as i do.
these photographs were all freelensed. i have been experimenting with this technique for the past month. i have fallen in love with the way it allows me to capture these fleeting, surreal moments together.
Please continue through the circle to see the rest of the 10 on 10’s. Up next is Missy Day.
On October 18th, my daughter was born and I became the mother of three children. Hundreds of miles away, on the same day, another baby girl was born and another woman added the third child to her family. We were complete strangers at that time, but our love of photography and family brought us together. We started to have a conversation about motherhood with images, because we tell stories with our cameras. Since some tales are so similar, and some are not, we decided to collaborate and share a photo a week from a normal day as a mother to three.
“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.” – Mary Jean Irion
your love for your baby sister is one of my favorite things. i love watching you two together. you can not keep your hands off of her. today you told me that she is the cutest baby in the whole wide world. you said, “she is so cute i just want to eat her up.”
photo by Heather Robinson
Want to know if she has a personality? How’s this for personality. Even when everyone is frowning and tired and stressed, she just busts one of these out and we are all smiling again. Thanks, Little One.
photo by Olivia Gatti of Click Click Love