A "Good-Bye" Photosession

What's a "Good-Bye" photography session?  

Whenever you think about a photography session for your family - you usually think about needing one for your Christmas card, during warmer weather, or for the fall colors.

However, have you thought about hiring a photographer to document events in your lives?  For example, when you move away from a place you've called "home" for an extended period of time?

When our family left Paris and closed an important chapter in our lives, I should have - and wished I had - hired a professional photographer to document some of our important parts of that life.  

Like us at the front door of our apartment or us doing our market shopping on rue Mouffetard or us playing at Square Rene Legall.  Just something to document our lives there and keep our memories more alive, many years after the fact.

Looking back, it is my biggest regret that I did not do this.

However, for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law - I could give them this.  They are moving from Boston back to Texas, where we are from.  Ending a huge chapter in their lives.  Leaving the place where they started their marriage and then started their family.

I could see why Boston would have a special place in their hearts.

SO:  I really wanted them to have pictures documenting their family right now in Boston.  Right before everything changes.  Right with all the many things that are important to them there.

Because what's good about being a photographer if you can't give what you can do to others?

On the front porch of the home where they lived

They were very active members in Hope Fellowship Church.  As a result, I felt it was really necessary to get pictures of them at their church, which was such a large part of their lives:

With their best friends who are family for them:

As Bryan (father, far right, holding the very sleepy newborn) put in an e-mail to me:  

"It's a great photo of all of us and it's how I will remember our families"

As a photographer, nothing warms my heart more than statements like this.  It's my goal - to preserve your family exactly how you remember them at this moment.  If you wonder what motivates me...that statement above from Bryan is it.  That is what motivates me to take great pictures of your family.  Capturing you and your memories for you.  Today.

So two things I'd like you take away from this pretty long post:

1.  I encourage you to think outside the box about when you need a photographer.  I love to document your lives.  To permanently press your memories onto printed medium.  Next time you see that baby's first step, have family coming to visit, or desire to document your family's memories at a favorite haunt - think about how precious it would be to have images of what mattered to you most.

2.  Personalize your session.  Of course it helps that I know my brother-in-law and sister-in-law and their best friends well enough to personalize their session for them without much Pre-Session Consultation planning.  However, my goal is to know all my clients like this.  To offer you pictures that really reflect your family and what matters most to you!  At La Lumiere Photography - I get to know my clients before I even take the camera out of the bag!

Whew.  I think that was long enough wasn't it?  :)

Bises,

La Lume