Welcome to Day 3 of Get Love Soaked Week! I’m sharing my images from all 5 family shoots we did at the Love Soaked Retreat, one family a day, every day this week.
in a crazy turn of events, this family’s sweet pup died the night before our morning shoot. had there been any way to reschedule, i would have in a heartbeat; but because it was for the retreat we decided to make the best of a hard morning following a hard night and not force smiles or anything else, just to hold space for what was.
it turned out to be even more beautiful and meaningful than we could have wished for. because when we hold each other in hard times, when we intertwine ourselves in the roughest waters, that’s when the deepest love shows up. it was palpable and every photographer in the room felt it; this family generously let us witness it.
we also experimented with adapting our process to this: instead of so much focus on our direction as photographers–do-this-do-that–we utilized other methods to keep them moving and interacting in ways that felt good to them, and so many photographers had breakthroughs in their own processes as a result.
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