Another Year

I enjoy the whole child photography thing. I really do. Perhaps more than anything else I've ever done. There is, however, a dark and sinister side to it. A side that you don't see when you look at the pictures.

This is Jake. I took his newborn pictures and now I have taken his one year pictures. It seems like yesterday that I was at the house, meeting him for the first time. Those of you that follow my "PaD" (if I can call it that anymore) know that I have trouble with how fast time screams by me. I absolutely hate watching my kids get older and I am not much better when it comes to me getting older. Before, my kids were my only real milestone. They would have birthdays, I would be all sad for a day or two, and then we would move on until next year. Now, as I do more kids, I have a lot of birthdays to remind me that another year has gone by. I can see me taking Jake's senior pictures and thinking "How did this happen?" Hannah will be 26 when that happens. ::sigh::

I tried to think of everything when I started this crazy business idea of mine. I didn't think about having a new set of milestones though. I just figured I would be taking pictures of happy babies and happy moms in a land of puffy white clouds while running through fields of dandelions....or something like that. It didn't occur to me that I might watch these kids grow up. Don't get me wrong, I'm honored that I get to. I am honored when people ask me to come BACK to their houses for more pictures. I still have trouble admitting that people actually LIKE my work.

Another year gone. I guess it's better this way, really. When you only have a birthday once a year, time slips away from you without you realizing it. When you have birthdays all the time it helps keep things in perspective.

See ya next year Jake.