Project 52 {week 39} | Pattern

Project 52 {week 38} | Pink

Not really the photo I intended to take this week. But it will have to do.

Project 52 [week 37} | Faceless Self Portrait

And some outtakes. Of course when I want to take photos of Max he acts like its going to the doctors or something. And this time when I didn't want him in the photos he popped in a couple times and looked stupidly cute! 

I do believe this is my new favorite photo. 

Project 52 {week 36} | Favorite Color

This was actually supposed to be last weeks photo. But I just couldn't think of my favorite color. I don't think I actually have one. There are tons of colors that I like, but none that I would consider my absolute favorite. So I switched this weeks and last weeks photos since I got so hung up on "what the heck is my favorite color"?

The one thing that is in my mind currently is that Fall is almost here. This is my favorite time of year. One reason being....the colors! I know the trees have not really started changing yet. But my sweet friend Ashley made this flower crown...and I thought it was perfect. None of the colors really speak to me individually. But together they are magic!

Oh the self portrait. Not my thing at all. I am so weirdly uncomfortable in front of the camera. Especially when I am taking photos of myself. But I also feel so strongly about being in the photo. I want my children to be able to look back and see who I was. It's so natural to me, as a photographer, to grab my camera and capture moments in time forever. I just tend to be left out of those moments. As I was putting together my sons scrapbook from his first year of life I noticed how many photos of him and my husband I had. And very few of Max and I together. Or the three of us as a family. That has to change! How sad it would be for my children and even my grandchildren or great grandchildren to have nothing to look back on (and I'm not talking about college party days pictures, lord help me). I love going through old photographs of my parents and grandparents. It never gets old to see my Mom as she was at my age now. As a new mom with me in her arms. I wish there were more photos of my grandmother at that age. And my great mother. This is our legacy.

I knew I needed to get a photo for this week but I also used it as an opportunity to get in the photo and embrace it, good or bad. So here are a few more from this series.

And of course some outtakes...my child definitely has PCS. Photographers Child Syndrome. He will run and look in any direction...as long as it isn't at the camera. And a smile? I must be joking. 

Project 52 {week 35} | Family