It has rained in Atlanta for the past 5 days. It is forecast to rain for the next 10 days. I think I saw the animals lining up two by two on my drive this morning.
After three sessions rained out this week, including today’s, I had not really planned to pick up my camera this afternoon. My boys were playing Wii, and my daughter was dressing up her dolls, and I was doing some editing when out my office window I saw a glimmer of …. could it be?? …. SUN!
My daughter just had her third birthday two weeks ago. Earlier today, I was trying to determine just when I might shoot her 3 Year Portraits. My session schedule is crazy busy for the next 6 weeks (‘Tis the season!) and the rain is making it even crazier. I thought I might just have to put off my daughter’s portraits until November. But when that long lost sun peaked through the trees and clouds today, I decided to make the most of it. These probably won’t be her only portraits for this year. For one thing, I hadn’t really planned on the post-school pigtails for her official photographs, but it is look that I will always remember from this age. (She calls them “Erica Tails”.)
Sometimes just capturing your child as they are in the moment is what really matters anyway.
So here is my little girl, all three years of her. Her giggles, her curls, her giant blue eyes, her suck-her-thumb-and-twirl-her-hair habit, her crooked eyebrow that I call God’s Thumbprint, her silly self, her gentle self, her magical, bright spirit. She adds such color and light to my world. She is one of a kind. She is fearfully and wonderfully made. She is Erica.
