A few weeks ago, my friend Jess of Studio3z Photography wrote a fantastic post about how she struggles to fight the tendency to make every shot “perfect.” I loved what she had to say about how, too often, we snap and snap away with the attitude of, “Well, I’m going to trash a lot of them that aren’t up to my standards.” And then, what do we do? We get home, pull those images up in our editing program and yep, trash a lot of them.
I’m guilty of this too. But what Jess wrote stuck with me and maybe it’s why, when I started editing through my photo shoot of the Smith family, I found myself holding on to this image below. It made it through the first, second and third round and there it was at the end. Like it had snuck its way into the pile. I don’t know what it is but I just love this shot of Jack. Something about it stirs something in me—makes me think of what it’s like to be a kid again—and I realized there was just no way I could trash it.
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by Gail Werner
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