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So Dani, Why Photography?
People ask me this all the time and I have talked to my husband about this. With photography I get to escape. My mind changes gears in a way that it just doesn’t with anything else. I can almost enter into a new world. My worries are gone and it’s just me, my camera, and my subject. Photography helps me focus and control my anxiety and recently I have realized that I might also have ADHD. So, It is SUPER therapeutic for me.
Along with all the mental health advantages that photography provides me with, it helps me with personal life things as well, and this isn’t like me but I might get a little personal here…. So, I don’t have a lot of material things from my childhood. I can probably count my physical belongings on one hand that I still have from growing up and it breaks my heart if I think about it too much..anyway…I don’t have any pictures of me under the age of, like, 12 or 13 besides maybe a small handful of old polaroids of me with my siblings and some cousins and one of me right after I was born and this is because, at the time, my parents were going through a REALLLY nasty divorce and it just wasn’t on anyone’s mind at the time to get pictures of the new baby, unfortunately. Family photos weren’t a common thing, I didn’t even know people took family photos until I was an adult. So needless to say, there are no professional photos in my family.
I now take pictures to capture all of my and my families most important memories. I talked about HOW I started my business in my last blog. This is WHY. The why is for so many reasons.
It’s for my family, my kids, for them to have the opportunity to grow up and look back when I am gone someday and remember these days.
My goal is to extend this to my clients as well. I want my clients to look at their wedding photos and be able to feel the nostalgia and be able to reminisce to that special day and feel the same way they did when they said, “I Do,” for time and all eternity. I want them to look at their engagement photos and have all of those memories and emotions rushing back because there’s nothing like it and it is a moment no one wants to forget. I want my clients, these amazing families, to always look at their family photos and see their growing families through the years and be able to see all that they have accomplished year to year. How far they have come, each new member, a new pet, a new house. Each new adventure. Whatever it may be.
I am not just here to take pictures. I am here to capture moments in time. I want to help build that time capsule of memories.
Until Next Time,
Dani P.
Here are some of the very few pictures I have as a little girl…this is why photography is so important to me
