Shutter Sisters

face to face

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Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to New York City and meet a few of the sisters in person for the first time ever.  One in particular was a most special meeting personally for me.  Meredith, camera shy momma, and I have been online friends for years now. Long before Shutter Sisters brought us together, we had “met” and formed a bond in this crazy internet world.  She living in Texas, and I living in Maine, never afforded us any face time until this day where we would finally meet in NYC.  It was unlike any other meeting I have had before. Usually I get nervous, not this time, not one bit.  I truly felt like it was any other day where I was meeting a dear old friend.  Like we had spent many days together, though in reality we never had.  We planned a full day in the city with another friend as our guide.  We met up at 9am, hugged, laughed at the reality of it all.  Friends – 3 years – hundreds of miles – now face to face.  Armed with our cameras, kinship, and a lust for this great city we were in, we set out on our adventure.  We walked miles.  We laughed tons.  In total I have 600 images from that one day.  Many touristy shots, urban life shots, bench shots, but this one image is one of my most favorite of the day.  We had just happened upon a used record store with a crate full of old vinyl albums outside.  Of course we each picked out an album and did a fun headcover, mine a Richard Pryor album and hers a Donna Summer album.  As Meredith lowered the record from her face, I kept shooting.  She bent over laughing at the silliness of the moment. I just love this shot of her; candid, real, happy, honest, in the moment, a memory forever saved in one click.  Her face, in the flesh, right there in front of me in real life and time.  A friendship come full circle face to face.

In honor of this month’s One Word, faces, share a favorite face you’ve captured with us today.

Comments

  1. I’m so glad for you two and I’m really glad Meredith made the trek to NYC. She needed it. And at the moment, she needed to be right there, with you, where you both belonged. 😉

  11. Your story reminds me of my best friend and I. We both have children from the same town in Ethiopia. We really helped each other through a very difficult adoption process, but live in different states…and have only met once. Meeting her was not difficult. We just picked up from our hours and hours of phone and internet conversations. I love hearing stories of friendship.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/8888946@N08/4859016486/

  20. How great that you guys got to finally meet in person! Congratulations! 🙂

    This is my favorite face. My boyfriend and I took our first vacation together last fall. We went to Italy and Madrid. I took so many pics of him that he finally got sick of smiling and started making silly faces instead. Turns out the silly ones are my favorites – his goofy sense of humor is part of why I love him!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniecourt/?saved=1

  22. What an awesome story!
    This is my best friend- we've known one another since we were teenagers, and I took this photo during a beach day with our kids.

  25. Faces always fascinate me, and I really wish I were a portrait painter. I wish they would hang pictures of the actual people next to their painted portraits in art museums so you could see how the artist interpreted the subject.

    Anyway, this face always gets my attention, but sometimes it takes a photo to have the chance to stop & stare at it. (plus, it's much quieter that way). http://www.flickr.com/photos/23113159@N03/4887244422/