These are two photos of my wife and my son, Carrie and Reid.
This is Reid, photographed in more of a studio setting:
Each of these mean so much to me because that’s my family, but those first two are not just what they are (my wife/my son/my family) but WHO they are, and who WE are.
The first two photos were taken the morning of game three of the Celtics play offs (that’s why he’s wearing the jersey that his Uncle Dave and Aunt Sanne gave him). That room they are in is Reid’s bedroom. Well, it actually use to be our room, but when Carrie was about 6 months pregnant, we decided to rearrange the whole apartment because we wanted Reid to have his own room. We were going to re-paint it from the color we had painted it before we moved in together here, but we had just painted another room, and our list of things to get done before Reid arrived was getting longer every day. See that quilt behind them? It’s one his Aunt Laurene made for him. It has turtles on it because I love turtles (it was actually my nickname for many years, to the point that few people knew my given name). The side of the quilt you don’t see is a fuzzy material that Laurene sewed in a large outline of a turtle in. So cool (and cozy)!!
You’ll notice an Ernie in the background of that second photo. I have quite the collection of Ernies that I’ve collected over many years and now I’m super excited to share them with the little guy! Oh, and yes, I love chess, too. Carrie got those chess piece outlines to put on the wall for my second birthday. For a while, they were on my home office wall, but then that room became our bedroom, so we moved them into Reid’s room because I’m hoping that will influence Reid to love chess as much I do so that I can finally have someone to play with!
I love the first two photos more because they will trigger these memories, and this time, in our lives for many years to come.
That second shot is… Well, it’s Reid. That’s what he looks like. His grandparents enjoy having a copy of that to frame. I know which day I took it because I can see the metadata in the file information. And, well, that’s about it.
I do what I do because I want to capture memories, not just photos. I want y’all to remember that day, that moment in your family’s life. I want these photos to start a conversation for many years to come.
What do you want photos of your family to say?
