2005.08.11 - mama's a photo lady-
If you really want to know, the reason my water bill is late this month is because I spend ALL my money on photo developing. How can you not?
There is no more worthy subject of the magic of light images on thin sheets of metal than a baby. And no more baby more worthy of being said subject than mine, with his thousand nuanced expressions, his millions of adorable cells.
How can I cut even one of these photos?
truman and his daddy, studying at the park
truman rocking the beach blanket
I wondered, when Truman was born, if I'd either (a) stop taking photos of Everett, and instead spend all my time with the baby; or (b) never get as many great, varied, obsessively-adoring pics with Truman as I did with Everett. But instead I've been taking rolls, and rolls, developing seven or eight at a time, producing wild and exuberant piles of color, smiles, frowns, baby skin and hair, children and water and sand and green, green grass.
truman and the green, green grass
truman kills with his smiles
I can't believe my good fortune at producing such beauty, both of the human and of the photographic type. And I can't imagine how to ever do justice to the stunning wonder of it all. I have dreams of bookshelves filled with fat photo albums of giant 15" prints, long halls and playrooms and living rooms filled with white-matted frames. Does anyone have a house they'd like to fill with stunning pictures of my kids and their friends?
truman and his daddy, loving the park
truman and his daddy, kissing and winking