Hobbies Meet Real Life
Have you ever had that realization that your hobby is just really hard to fit into real life? I love to be creative, to take pictures, to make cool stuff. But things like teaching kids, cooking food, and cleaning messes seem to take a lot of time! 😉 So much that sometimes it feels like I don’t have those stretches of time to devote to my random things. So I try do what every busy mom knows how to do really well…..multi-task! Photography is one of my fun things that is a little easier to work with! Its all about capturing a moment and telling a story with that! So I set up my tripod and my camera exposure. Then I took pictures of us working on our school work together. I was sitting on our couch reading and doing some lessons and, with my remote, I would take pictures! So I got to work on my fun stuff while teaching really usful subjects to my kids! The results were interesting and it is a good way to hold onto the daily realisty here! I don’t have pictures of us doing school work and since this is something that is a huge part of our lives it seems silly to not have some! The more I think about taking pictures, the more I realize that the pictures that speak the most to me, both that I take and that I see of others, are always the ones that are real. Where the family or the subject is engaged in something that is real and meaningful to them. Portraits are nice and look good on a wall, but the photos that invoke true feeling in someone are the unstaged ones. I guess that means my style of photography is leaning toward lifestyle photography. Here are my pictures from our lesson. I did some edits on them, just in case you are wondering!
What do you think? Do you have a hobby that you try to fit into the daily business of mommy life?
PS……I haven’t forgotten Halloween pics! I will post them next! 🙂
November 9, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
I Love your pictures! The one were you are talking to your smiling daughter on the couch is so cute and real. It would be awesome to have someone photograph us while we are learning. To be able to capture the giggles, the lack of interest, the silliness, the total joy at accomplishing something new, is just priceless. Please keep posting pictures. I can’t wait to see the Halloween ones!
November 9, 2014 @ 8:11 pm
I think these look wonderful! I love that you were able to get them candidly, but still getting some good eye shots – the one of Pup’s eyes is just wonderful 🙂 I love that you can do a little of it all! 🙂