Shutter Sisters

Hand it Over

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Sometimes as I’m clicking away, making sure to record each event or small detail in our lives, I have to remind myself to hand over that precious camera and ask someone else to take my picture. On this day, it was my husband John. We were at an Earth Day festival in the park and I was busy taking pictures of our surroundings and of him. But I made sure to plop the camera in his hands and say “Will you take a picture of me so people know I exist?” Sometimes I worry that my future children will look at our old photo albums and ask me if I was even there. So I try to make an effort to be in a few shots at every occasion, no matter how small. So consider this your reminder! Don’t be afraid to hand over the camera and ask someone to capture your beautiful face.

Has anyone taken your picture with your camera lately? If so, leave a link in the comments. And self portraits don’t count this time!

Comments

  3. i have been on entire vacations without a single shot to record my presence. sigh. this spring break, i lined up a family photoshot with a photographer so that i could have family photos with me in them, even ones with just my husband and me — what a treat!

  5. what a beautiful picture of you! And no, I have no pictures of me lately at all. Good reminder that I need to hand it over. It’s just so hard sometimes…

  6. ha! i can’t post a single picture either that is not a self-portrait. my husband just repels the camera for some reason. i also worried that my son would never see me in photos so i use the self timer alot to take our pictures together.

    this is a beautiful picture of you! what a gorgeous smile you have! 🙂

  9. one of my favourite friends to photograph quite regularly will turn the camera on me after a photo shoot of her. it felt so amazing to see myself as beautiful as seen through someone else’s perspective and gave much perspective to what it is i seek to do for those folks i photograph!

    here’s my picture (its a dyptich of my friend and i)…thats me on the left.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/missvivienne/2346429429/

  12. Sometimes I feel trapped behind the camera as my Hubby doesn’t always like to take pictures. I make him though, and he is getting better, because I want to see myself beside Lilly too.

    This one my brother took the other night, he wasn’t too sure how to use my camera…but i love the way it came out (I am on the right and my sister on the left)

    http://lovefamilylife.blogspot.com/2008/04/sisters.html

  18. Paige this is a great picture of you and what a wonder reminder to all of us. I created a slide show for my niece and realized after watching it that I was not in any of the pictures even though I was at many of the events. I too fear my children will look back and wonder where Mom is – but then again they’ll know 🙂

    Anyway, today (before reading this post) I handed the camera over to my best friend to capture a picture or two with my kiddos.

    http://aphotomom.blogspot.com/2008/04/play-day.html