A mundane Monday, or is it?

As photographers, it’s our job to capture moments in time, but realize we can’t be there to take photos of our client’s everyday life.

I find the most powerful times to photograph are in the ordinary. It’s just that most don’t realize the importance of these until the years have gone by. The backgrounds and images you see every day are so robust and right there in front of you. Getting ready for school, your spouse drinking their morning coffee in their favorite chair, or your three year old on a step stool brushing their teeth before bed. Those images that you see everyday, but are gone in a blink. 

It’s never been so easy for you to capture these moments than now. My suggestion – pick up your phone and take a photo of your everyday life. No pomp and circumstance. Don’t fix a thing. Let your child in their sweaty sports gear at the kitchen table doing their homework with messy hair. Get in their world, and put your camera lens at their eye level and snap the shot. I promise, it’ll be an image that stops you in your tracks 10 years from now.

If in writing this someone photographs an image of their mundane Monday, I believe I did my little part as a photographer today.