I am closing this blog...not like taking it off the internet for ever closing...I am just not going to be writing here anymore. I started this blog to keep family up to date on things going on in our life since we were planning on not living near them for many, many years. But those planned changed. I have changed. A new season in life has begun for me. I will still be blogging, but more on that in a minute.
Because of this blog, I found my voice. I wanted you to hear me. A sweet friend of mine told me that reading my blog was like I was talking to her. That was the biggest complement I could have gotten. I wanted to write so that it felt like I was actually talking to you. Many of you got to know me and my husband and my children because of this blog.
Also, because of this blog, I found photography. I started out wanting to learn my camera just to put better pictures on here, so you felt like you were there in the moment with us. I hope I was able to do that. I look back on these pictures and feel like I am taken back to that moment, but it is easier for me, because I lived that moment.
Over the past 6 years, I have studied photography and my camera. I know my camera inside and out and what it can do and what I can push it to do. I have also spent the last 3 years studying business, specifically the business of photography. I could have started my business so many times, but I am glad I didn't. I had this idea of what I should be doing as a photographer and I tried to force myself into that bubble, but to be honest there are a lot of photographers out there doing the exact same thing. It can be discouraging, because they are fantastic at what they do. But not until recently, did I start embracing my voice as a photographer. I have been refining it. I will always be learning. You can never know everything...everything is always changing. I tell my daughters that if you want to be good at something, never stop learning. Because I am confident in my photography voice, I know feel like I can offer that to other people. If you have followed me on this blog or instagram, you will know that I enjoy the little things my kids do. Those little moments are ones I will value as they get older. It is fun to look back at pictures of the girls as littles and see the same expressions in their faces today.
I want to offer my services as a photographer to people that want those moment captured....the unposed...life as it is happening. The term is called documentary. So, I am calling myself a family documentary photographer.
Inviting someone into your life to photograph those moments can be intimidating, because to most people I will be a stranger. Because of that I am making a conscience effort to allow people to get to know me on my website. It is set up in a blog like fashion. I will be letting people see apart of me and my family. I want people to feel like they know me, so they feel a little more comfortable with me. If you want to keep following me, you can follow me at Sarah M Turner Photography .
I will keep this blog open for awhile. My instagram feed will still come here, because I know I have family that checks out those photos that do not have instagram. I also have one more story to tell, but it is a long one and I will need to write it out and refine it before I post it here. It is a cool story and hopefully, you will be able to see God in it and not me.
I will leave you with a little of Sutton's birthday morning (and then cake in the evening). Yes, we had homemade pizza for breakfast. She designed her own cake, and she held the most confidence that I could create it...don't look too closely. :)
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