Newborn, Baby and Wedding Photography in Melbourne :: Kristen Cook {The Blog}

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

Your windswept hair
Your proud full belly
Your little chubby wrists
Your purposeful stride
Your comedy beyond your years
Just some, of the many things I love about you.
Right. Now.

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

I lifted the camera.
Those teeth came down on that lip.
Every.time.
Then, I looked beside me.
Your sister was doing it too.
Not to copy, but because it was simply natural for her to do so when she had someone’s attention.
I had never noticed that you both did that.
In that moment, it all made sense.
This is you in your most vulnerable state.
Your sister too.
You have developed humility.
So then, in that moment, I pressed the shutter.
And everything fell into its rightful and beautiful place.
As it always had been.

{Photo-a-Day Project: A personal project that I undertake every January for an entire month taking one photo a day of my children.}

Moments like this can untangle themselves slowly from the chaos.
For one minute, arguments ensue over who gets to check the mail or who took the last piece of cheese.
And the next, they do this…