The thoughts that enter my mind when I click the shutter

Just a little story of what I feel when I take portraits of clients.

When a photographer hits the shutter button it isn’t just capturing someone's picture. It is a moment of a person's youth, or a moment of a family legacy is captured. It creates a bond with the client and photographer knowing that the photographer has the clients best interests at hand.

When I bring my images into my computer and do the editing (take out distracting objects and remove stray hairs and get rid of the pesky pimples that form up over night) I work my butt off with the skills I have learned with the years of experience to make the client look their best. To edit an image that would look it's best in a certain room of their house so that when the light hits it a certain way the client is transported back to the day and moment that it was captured and think of the awesome experience they had with me.

When years down the road come, and the client looks at the image and watch how they have grown or expanded in size in the number of family members they have captured a timeline of their family history. Something their kids will be proud of to know that their parents saw an investment opportunity and they took it.

Being a photographer has to be one of the most amazing jobs I have had because I am not just creating art. I am helping create a family history that is constantly in the making.

This is the one of the many feelings I get when I click the shutter button on my camera.