Change

I'm hoping that everyone has seen a change in my photography in the last 6 months or so.  I was really unhappy with my portrait work.  I got burned out easily.  I wasn't really enjoying it.  My images were good, but not what I wanted them to be.  It just wasn't working for me anymore.  I slowly tried to make small changes, but it all clicked when I did this session.  It was mostly by accident how perfectly the session went in so many different ways.  After that, I just knew the changes that I had to make in pretty much all areas of my photography - the editing, the shoot, the preparation, the business end.  Everything just started to fall into place.  A lot of things have played into this change, but I think it's funny how it only took me one session to finally figure it all out.  I'm hoping you can see the change - it's not dramatic by any means but it is so much more of what I want to accomplish as a photographer and artist.  It's more real, more natural, more playful, more enchanting, more timeless, more passionate, more loving - all the things I want for the people I work with.

I've been so grateful for this change.  I love my sessions now.  I love sitting down to work on the images.  I love sending out those emails to the clients to say there portraits are finally done.  I really feel like I'm finding my place in this art again.  I've had 5 sessions in the last month and haven't even felt a bit overwhelmed or burned out by it (and I'm 13 weeks pregnant!).  My work has been therapeutic during this relocation process.  It's back to the way it felt when I first started doing photography.  I'm passionate about it again and I'm so thankful for it.

This is a little preview of a session I did yesterday evening.  I can't wait to finish editing them and to share them all with you.  Everything went so well and it was one of those sessions that I feel really shows this change in my work that's taking place.