The girls and I took the opportunity to check out the houses on The Highland Lakes Garden Club Home Tour today. We saw some amazing ridge views and meticulously maintained gardens. All very inspiring! On the tour we got to stop at the Aldridge family home who has beautiful lake views, gorgeous hydrangeas flanking the yard, and their own private nature trail.
When I saw the garden full of blue hydrangeas blossoms, I asked Savannah to quickly pose for a picture and my mind quickly flashed back to a photo I took of her in our living room with hydrangeas when she was 2 months old. It was unplanned (and I had to modify her shirt color), but this image feels like the perfect recreation 19 years later!
After fishing this image off a hard drive, I remembered how pivotal moments like these were to inspiring my career as a photographer. After a friend blessed us with newborn pictures with Savannah, it gave me the drive to set up and try doing my own photo sessions with her each month of her 1st year. She was my very first portrait client!
You may look at this amateur image and laugh at the sheet thrown over the fireplace with cut hydrangeas from the back yard, with decent enough exposure from a pop up flash, but to me it was my foundation as a children’s portrait photographer.
Savannah we’ve learned a few things together through the years, but you will always be my blue eyed baby!
For this year’s Spoiled Rotten Photography Personal Project, my inspiration piece came from one of my own photos, that is the beginning of its own story.
