Lifestyle Photography in Charleston, SC
What do you do when your favorite neighbor moves away and you can't just peak over the fence and see them everyday? You pop over and photograph all the life that makes up their first home.
How do you say goodbye to the home you came home to from your wedding? How do you say goodbye to the home you didn't get a chance to bring your first daughter home to? How do you leave the home your youngest daughter had all her firsts? The house that has fostered more than a few children, and united a new family?
Emily and I met as strangers that were never supposed to meet again and then ended up neighbors and friends. We were each other's first non-family babysitters for our babies, born 1 week and 1 year apart.
I promised to tell any and all future neighbor's about Maggie's tree in the backyard, and send pictures when the pink blossoms bloom.
Every corner of this house holds a "first" for not-so-baby Elyse.
"Day in the Life" photography is where my heart officially lies. Spending a day with someone and documenting all the little things that make up a life together. The things that seem so mundane and then one day the mundane things are a sweet recollection.
One day there's no more diaper sticking out of the backs of shorts.
Girls learn to fix their own hair.
Reading books becomes a quiet independent activity, instead of a family ritual.
They learn to smile without their tongues sticking out.
This is the closest I can come to freezing time.
I always ask to photograph the lovey/security blanket. It's so quintessential of a small window of time.
Hugs still happen but there's more awareness of personal space.
How do you start a new chapter in a new city? You bring the memories with you.
I don't think the story of our friendship ends here though.
1. Because I still like getting Elyse's hand-me down clothes.
2. Everything Emily posts on instagram about Michigan makes it look pretty, all I knew was that it was cold. So I guess we'll be visiting one day!
3. I still plan to text Emily every time our neighbor across the pond is hosting a party way too late at night in the summer (anything after 9pm).
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