Hi all, first off I apologize to any regular readers that it has been so long for a post. With the bleakness of winter and the lack of natural light hours after work, I have found inspiration rather hard to come by. I know… I know… Excuses… Excuses, but hey it is my site and my vision but the truth of the matter is to get better and more creative with my photography I really need to just shoot and think about things later.
The theme of this post is my Mom. For those that don’t know either from personal knowledge of me or from listening to my podcast or being my facebook friend, a couple of months ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. My mom is a amazingly important person in my life and someone I probably don’t let know enough how much I love her or how appreciative I am for the things she has done to raise me. The other thing my mother is is a person that wears her emotions on her sleeve. When people learn of things that stress them out there are different things they do to help relieve the stress in their lives, for me it is photography, for my father it is writing (he is a playwright) and for my mom it is shopping.
Last week I went down to my parents house with my daughter to spend some time (well, who am I kidding, it was for them to have fun with my daughter, I am second fiddle now). While making dinner I had a thought of doing some Portrait work for my mom and dad. I had my trusty camera in hand -as I always do- fitted with my 50 f/1.8 and set up a stool in a pretty well lit area of the kitchen and was set to get to work. This is the series I took. It shows the array of emotions that my mother is going through. Each one powerful, each Fighting all the others, Each showing themselves during sometime of the shoot.
My mom kept saying that she looked bad and had no makeup on but I think that is part of my mother’s “Mystique.” Since I have known her she has always felt the need to put on the front of makeup or worried about what others were thinking, without realizing that what she was thinking or feeling was just as important and that it was okay for her to really just be her.
This post will be a little different than other ones. I’m not going to explain the post process and will just let the images speak for themselves. Processing these images was really hard for me because in some I can see the worry and sadness and scared feelings that my mother is going through.
I Love you Mom And I know everything is going to be Okay, and no matter what please know that I will always be there for you as you have always been there for me.
