Family Portraits

This family was one of the very first families I ever photographed.

I was 18 years old, just weeks away from graduating high school, when they graciously trusted me with their family photos. I was still learning the craft, but opportunities like that planted the seeds of what would become a lifelong love for photography, not just for the photos themselves, but for getting to know the people in them.

Over ten years later, I had the privilege of photographing them again.

Just two weeks before I got married and moved to a new country, we met in the hills where they had raised their family and created so many memories together. It was our third portrait session over the years, but this one carried special significance. Within weeks, they would pack up their home and begin a new chapter across the ocean. We were both moving to new places. 
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It was an honor to preserve these moments before such a major transition, to capture a family in a place that had shaped so much of their story, just before they turned the page to the next one.