Me as a baby and my baby

It used to be that every two or so months you dressed up the baby and took them for a posed portrait at Olan Mills or another similar studio. I prefer to have important moments documented. I am lucky, as my partner and I are both photographers. These portraits mean so much more to me than a posed shot at Sears. I have a photo of my son an hour after he was born and I have his birth too...but I will spare you on that beauty. I have a photo of the very first time his brother held him, his first hair cut. I know you can't have a photographer for all of these events, but you can for your birth, first day of school, birthdays, graduations, family reunions, a visit with a grandparent, all of the moments that you cherish. When your children are grown, they can reflect back on that moment and it will be preserved forever. Posed portraits have their place, but there is so much more emotion in the day to day events that we all experience. I will always regret not having a photographer for my first two children's births.