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Some rambling and a photographic review of the week

December 30, 2013 By Erika Zane

30 Dec

As I sit here, I’m contemplating going through my library of photos from the past year to do a “Best of 2013” post.  I’d like to do one here featuring my family and one over on my photography blog featuring my favorite photos of clients.

Honestly, it’s a little more overwhelming than I realized when I first had this wonderful idea.  A minute ago, I opened up Lightroom (my primary editing software), sorted the pictures by year, and narrowed them down just to the ones I took on my DSLR.  Want to know what I found? I have 8,765 photos.

Yep.  I’m serious.  How in the heck did I take so many pictures?!

Granted, that number includes sessions I did, but even if half of them aren’t of my family, that’s still a lot.  I think I’m going to have to break this down into memorable events.

I’m actually a little proud of myself, too.  I’ve had a DSLR for almost 5 years, but the number of pictures I took with it in a given year used to be somewhere around 25.  That’s my best guess anyway.  I’ve always taken a lot of pictures, just a majority of them used to be with my phone.  I always forgot my big camera and, when I miraculously didn’t leave it at home, I neglected to pull it out of my bag.

So, before I start my tedious project (which will undoubtedly keep me up too late tonight), I thought I’d share some of my favorite photos from this past week.

Can I open my presents yet?

Thank you Santa!

Tante Heidi 1

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Tante Heidi 2

Tante Heidi 3

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Comments

  1. Lauralynn Elliott says

    December 31, 2013 at 9:46 am

    Thanks for sharing! I love family pics, especially Christmas ones. You have beautiful family.

    • Erika @aHeartMoreFocused says

      January 1, 2014 at 12:21 pm

      Aw thanks Lauralynn! Happy New Year to you and your boys (even if they are all grown up, they’ll always be your babies, right?)! xoxo

  2. JoAnn Kaeten says

    January 1, 2014 at 5:45 pm

    Love these photos!!!

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Hello and welcome.  It’s been a while.  For Lent this year I decided to fast from the thing that took too much of my attention from what is truly important: Social Media.  Though there are countless amazing benefits to Social Media, after about a month offline so far, there are seemingly just as many negatives.  I never realized how much of my brain had been hijacked by it.  I’ve had so many revelations about how much easier it is to move forward when I’m not constantly reminded of the past.  But I still want to record my family as they grow at this ridiculous speed and, I’m realizing, so many of our family’s memories are here.  Those along with so many of the struggles and stages we’ve worked through.  Maybe in the midst of COVID19 isolation and my kids around me so often, I’m brought back to a time when they were too young for school and with me so often.  Writing here during that time helped make up for the limited adult conversation in my days and the overwhelm provided by my… little treasures 😉 My husband, fur babies, three fiesty kids, and I hereby extend an invitation to visit this little sneak peak into our life. We’re super flawed and broken and there aren’t too many dull moments around here.  And I promise it’s not always as magical as some of my golden hour, sun-soaked images would suggest.  There’s usually too much coffee in my system and we welcome all the prayers.  Come on over if you want to process with me.

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