Hi Mom:
I appreciate the huge compliment. My photography gives me great joy to share with people, but my poetry is much harder to share. It shocks me that is resonates so much with other people.
I am always taking pictures. even if I don’t have a camera in hand, my eyes and heart are seeing them. But the end result is thousands of images that get buried. I am glad that I dusted off this old one I love for the competition. I almost send the email to the spam filter from Ryan, not even remembering that I’d entered a contest, my expectations were so low!
My husband and I work together as owners of Elijah Park Photography. In spite of a inconvenient day job as a engineer for him, we really strive to savor life. This was taken during one of our frequent outings in Downtown Portland, Oregon’s waterfront. It was just taken with a little snapshot camera. Kathryn, who now is 7, has always been independent, and this is a great reminder to me of what joy we’ve always taken in her spirit. But when I saw this image on the tiny old LCD screen, and was driven to hunt a piece of scrap paper in the car and write down what I saw in it.
It’s always hard to communicate to your partner that you desperately need some paper when you’re trying not to show you’re crying over a silly picture you just took! After ten years of marriage, I can say that he really understands now when I hit a incoherent creative moment.
I am going to display it with a companion piece of her sister that I am working on. Our younger daughter spent her first month of life in the Neonatal ICU due to a very rare tumor on her liver, and I want to frame that into words, but it is very difficult to do. I believe the preserving how I felt then is important to my day to day life now, and this is a wonderful way to do it.
Ginger
Tags: Canvas On Demand, cool stuff
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