I’m laying in some prep work for next week’s assignment, so please bear with me. For so many of us, our desire to pick up our cameras and photograph our lives came with the birth of our kids. Whether we’ve kept our love of photography as something personal, or expanded into business, I’d like to bring us back to that first instinct — to capture the moments of parenthood that we want to savor for years to come.
This week, I’d like us to turn our lenses on the men in our lives, whether they be Dad, Grandpa, Papa, Pop, Daddy, Grump, or something else perfectly special. We know the guy, let’s see him with the kids!
If you don’t have a father-figure to shoot, I’d love for you to share an image that tells us the story of what fatherhood means to you. Maybe that’s the empty chair at the head of the table, a well-worn pipe, a baseball glove or briefcase. Maybe it’s the cool pair of shades he lowers every time he tells a Dad joke, or the cocktail that he enjoys sitting on the swing on a warm summer day. Maybe it’s a plaid blazer that he pulled out of the closet for every summer family BBQ, or the ratty old silk bathrobe he wore every Christmas morning. Maybe it’s seeing someone else’s slightly ridiculous comb-over, and thinking of the man that meant Dad to you.?
This was mine:
And this is the guy that is Dad to my kiddos, and rocks it everyday:
After much stubborn refusal, my boy is finally ready to practice balancing on his big boy bike. Every day for the last few, he and Dad have been out in the backyard, or on the sidewalk in front of our house, riding and balancing back and forth. With dad’s help, I’m sure he’ll be riding around on his own in no time!
