a teaser of about a hundred more to come! let’s just say i’m in love – in love – in love with my sister’s kids…
year after year, these girls have been sweet energy for my camera. this year, i took just a few seconds of shaky clips throughout their shoots, just for fun & to explore more this newfound love of photography in motion. just a little 60 seconds at the end – of this sweet family…
jeffery from stacy bostrom on Vimeo.
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it’s a gorgeous day. beautiful.
and we are inside — boys eating saltines, sipping gatorade, and playing monopoly… let’s just say no one slept all night.
anyways – my boys are all in sweet spirits despite, so for that we are grateful.
hope your sunday is wonderful!
and yes. now sleep is so desperately needed. sweet angel, sleep well.
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i find so many similarities to lifestyle “in-home” photography and when i used to be a social worker/therapist. seeing their world, their space, their relationships with a different and fresh set of eyes and then reflecting it back to them for them to see… i find this version of “reflecting” a little less strenuous however.
finding interesting pockets of beauty because light is coming in, or capturing sweet engagements between people, or just movement.
it’s simply an honor – to be invited in, and reflect the beauty back – through my eyes.
or lens… sometimes the same.
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so i told gavin i wanted one last shot before he lost his first little front baby tooth… 
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yes.
sometimes a beach photoshoot is magical.
and sometimes just a blanket in my backyard seems magical.
either way – it seems like depsite the most active holiday season of photography to date, i think my heart is growing more and more with my views and visions for photography. that perfection and a beautiful photograph is so much more than everyone acting perfect. that a beautiful photograph is actually capturing the essence of someone’s being. of someone’s family.
and that every time – it never fails… the photographs become so emotional to me.
i just can’t help it.
photography is emotional.
and that is good.
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with pictures streaming in and out around here – it helps to pull a few out and see how diverse, unique and special each shoot is. when it goes so fast – it’s so hard to feel like i’m savoring things. it’s like our days – they move so fast, but just stopping for a minute to savor the sweetness helps me not feel like i’m losing out.
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i asked my friend emily to just write a little paragraph about what she had hoped to get out of our shoot – and her words, combined with the visuals of the photographs has made me tear up. it’s beyond special.
she is so gifted in writing. so here are her words – to go with my wordless love demonstrated in photograph…..
To capture us.
I didn’t want to do a big professional photo-shoot until I knew our family was complete. Getting to that point has been a journey full of ups and downs, but when our third daughter was born I felt we had arrived at “complete” and were ready for some pictures. There was only one person I wanted to capture our crew, my dear friend Stacy, but for a while I hesitated to book a shoot because, well, we aren’t particularly fancy or stylish and I didn’t think our little ragamuffin family was worthy of her talent.
But as I looked through Stacy’s family photo shoots I realized something…it’s not that Stacy photographs only amazingly beautiful people…what makes her photography so lovely, so captivating, is that she somehow captures the natural beauty that is inside each person, each family. That is what I wanted – our family’s signature beauty to be captured.
The 5 of us are a happy, loving, messy, joyful ball of chaos and THAT is what I trusted Stacy to catch and document. I wanted some fraction of how I feel about my spectacular little girls, and how we all feel about each other and this gorgeous place we live to come through in photos. I wanted snapshots of the joy of childhood, the bond between sisters, the innocence and mischief in my girls eyes, the lush green retreat of our backyard, my husband and daughters playing in the water and sand at their most special place. I wanted pictures of the little moments and details and looks that may seem insignificant, but are actually where life happens. I wanted something that my husband and I could look back on together and remember the beautiful mess of this intense, exhausting, gorgeous stage of life.
The experience of the photo-shoot was so natural and fun and actually felt like a gift in and of itself. For two hours I felt like I was outside myself watching these three amazing little creatures God has seen fit to bless me with. I felt close to tears just watching them twirl, and laugh, and run, and fall, and climb, and just be themselves. The fact that this shoot ended up with all of us in the ocean in our clothes is a delightfully accurate portrayal of our family and a testimony to Stacy’s natural style. She let us be us.
I have a feeling we will come across more serene and lovely in the pictures than we really are, but I think that might actually be the true magic of Stacy’s photography. All of that beauty is in all of us all the time, and it just takes a special person to see it and capture it.
Thank you Stacy, for capturing a little bit of us that we can cherish, remember, and hold on to forever. I can’t wait to see what beauty you found through your lens.
on top of the world. your family is amazing. xoxo
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