Tara & Scott...sneak peek

Tara & Scott • The Villa. East Bridgewater MA

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Olivia is 6!

Today is Liv's birthday.  Six is such a different age than any of the past ages.  I'm seeing so much more independence in Olivia these days.  And not only that, but she's a little bit of an old soul, so she seems even more grown up to me than she ever has.  And I know that makes sense; I mean, the older you get, the more grown up you should seem, right?  Most people anyway :)   All the things that I love about her -- her kindness, her sincerity, her willingness to help and her agreeable nature -- all these things seem to be shining through even more now.  Does it happen like that?  All of a sudden your kid turns a certain age, and BAM!, she becomes who she is, or who she's supposed to be?  Well, she's turning into an amazing kid and I am proud to be her mother.

Here are some of my fave pics of her over the past few years:

Happy Birthday sweet Olivia!

I'm a mentor! (Again!)

I love my job, I know how to do it, I have been doing it for years, but trying to teach someone how YOU do YOUR job is a whole other ball park.  Being a mentor is a total priviledge, but it's a little bit scary too.  You have a high school student relying on you to actually teach her something fairly important to her, and hope that you're explaining yourself well, and hope that she's actually learning something from you, something that she will take with her and hopefully apply to her life in a meaningful, significant way.  I mean, let's face it, I'm no teacher; I'm a photographer.  And frankly, I am still learning every day.  But I can share my personal experience and hope that it's enough to make her think, "wow, photography is really cool!"  That's it.  Well, maybe a little more than that...like, I hope she learned something too.  My mentoree, Amber, and I had a little time this week to shoot a little bit, just so I could teach her the basics.  We ventured around my dreary, foliage and flower free yard, but managed to find a few things on which to test out her newly acquired photography knowledge.......


But first, a shot or two inside with two of the most adorable children on the planet....What? No. I'm not biased at all.....

Amber's pics - I let her borrow my Nikon with a 50mm lens....

I love how you can make something like this textured tree into a really cool detail shot...

My pics...

Here's Amber, high school senior, AKA my mentoree (is that a word? because I keep using it)...

Avery found a pine cone...

This shoot was definitely a good lesson in detail shots, which are some of my favorite shots to take at weddings, or at all, for that matter.  We didn't do too bad considering we had nothing but leafless trees and dead grass to look at outside :)

Being a mentor is definitely challenging, but it's rewarding to know you may have helped shape a person's future....maybe.