When everyday (everyday!) is so glorious (glorious!)
It’s funny to have a job that has crazy manic periods of activity and then a month or two at a time in which you do absolutely nothing at all. I don’t want to complain about being a photographer because I LOVE IT, but it’s just always interesting to see how time is spent. Every year I forget what this time of the year is like — the weddingweddingwedding rush, editing and charging batteries and clearing memory cards, keeping track of emails and directions, remembering everyone’s names (couples are easy, but all the extended family members? Sometimes a challenge), wash rinse repeat.
It always kind of creeps up: January is usually pretty slow (though we’ve had weddings each January we’ve been a business, which is good), February is slow (except for a mini-Valentine’s Day blip), and things start to pick up at the end of March, when it starts to warm up around here. April is hectic but manageable, and May and June are an all-out race to the finish line. Weekends get eaten up with work, which is ok but kind of a drag when your weekdays are also eaten up with it.
Again: not complaining. Just sharing. Because my weekdays are also filled with hanging out with Sean and Jasper until 10 AM when most families have to leave each other around 7 or 8, or Sean coming home randomly at 2 PM because he can. Spending mornings with Jasper at the library or the gardens is fucking blissful. So, you know. It’s nice. This thing I do.
I’m thinking about it because we fiiiinally got around to having Ashley take more family photos of us — I wanted to do it right around the time Jasper turned two, but life kept happening. Jasper was kind of having a meltdown in the photos because Kali wouldn’t share her Frisbee, but we like them because they represent what was actually happening, and it’s kind of funny to see how quickly he can go from TOTAL DESPAIR to “Oh, hey! A camera? Look at me smile.”
PS: Don’t put henna in your hair unless you really really really love it. My hair has so many shades of red in it right now I don’t even know what to do, and there’s no way to get it out. Plus..I like it being red. I’d just like it to be like…one or two shades. Instead of twenty. Thoughts?
It always kind of creeps up: January is usually pretty slow (though we’ve had weddings each January we’ve been a business, which is good), February is slow (except for a mini-Valentine’s Day blip), and things start to pick up at the end of March, when it starts to warm up around here. April is hectic but manageable, and May and June are an all-out race to the finish line. Weekends get eaten up with work, which is ok but kind of a drag when your weekdays are also eaten up with it.
Again: not complaining. Just sharing. Because my weekdays are also filled with hanging out with Sean and Jasper until 10 AM when most families have to leave each other around 7 or 8, or Sean coming home randomly at 2 PM because he can. Spending mornings with Jasper at the library or the gardens is fucking blissful. So, you know. It’s nice. This thing I do.
I’m thinking about it because we fiiiinally got around to having Ashley take more family photos of us — I wanted to do it right around the time Jasper turned two, but life kept happening. Jasper was kind of having a meltdown in the photos because Kali wouldn’t share her Frisbee, but we like them because they represent what was actually happening, and it’s kind of funny to see how quickly he can go from TOTAL DESPAIR to “Oh, hey! A camera? Look at me smile.”
