Why Consider A Storytelling Photoshoot
Have you ever found your old photo albums and then lost yourself looking through old memories? You look at photographs, enthralled at yourself as a child. The photos in albums are not usually the ones of all of you posed and smiling. They are just a little bit more. There’s that one of you fishing in the muddy puddle with your homemade fishing rod, or the one of you as a teenage with your friends and your 80s hairdos and bright neon clothing. You look closely trying to see what your home was like then, how young you all were and how much laughter there was. The photos bring your memories back to life. They give them colour and taste and smell. A photo tells a story like no words. This is what a storytelling photo session is. An artful way to record your family, to show the love and laughter, the mess, the tears and the cuddles. Here is why you should consider having a storytelling photo session at least once whilst your children are young.
1. A Storytelling Photo Session is a Gift for your Children
One day your children will want to look back on their childhood. What better way than to show them through photographs. When they have children of their own and when you are no longer here, they will be able to look through those memories and experience them over and over again.
2. Your family can’t travel to visit this year because of Covid.
My family live overseas and have not been able to visit me this summer. And then I was supposed to travel back home for a visit too this year. A story telling photoshoot in an album is a great present for grandparents who you can’t see at the moment. An album for them is different to a video call. You can pick up and album and look at it and get lost in your own memories. Your parents can see and experience the moments they come to visit you for.
3. Photos boost self-esteem.
Taking emotive photos and printing them for the wall boosts you and your children’s feelings of belonging, self-love and self-worth. It’s time to get those photos printed and put onto your wall.
4. You should exist in your photos too.
What your children really want to see is you in their photos. Don’t be the always taking photos. Your children don’t care what you look like, they just care that they see you. They want to see you with them.
5. The years fly by
Right now the nights are long, the days are filled with caring for your little ones and it seems like it will never end. But the years are short, so very very short. Before you know it you can’t quite remember what everything looked like. You don’t remember how your child screwed up their face, or their cute laugh or how they reach for something. You spend so much of your life energy caring and loving these tiny beings but now they are gown up. Capture the real moments of your family whilst you can and capture these memories for ever..
So what now? If you are interested in a storytelling photoshoot I would love to hear from you. I am a photographer based in Wanaka. You can email me here at Aurora Lane Photography.